Usa-China, 50 years ago the historic meeting in Beijing between Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong and the beginning of the thaw

BEIJING – “I was young, 27, and had just disobeyed an order from the president. That evening, at the welcome banquet with Mao Zedong and Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, Richard Nixon wanted to speak off the cuff and asked me to translate his speech I asked to see the text first: I knew there was one, I had prepared it, but they told me there was no text.