The China Business Review, March 1st, 2003
Thirty years to the day after President Richard Nixon's historic arrival in Beijing on February 21, 1972, when he emerged from his Boeing 707, hand extended, to grip Premier Zhou Enlai's hand in what Premier Zhou described as the longest handshake in history-across an ocean and a gulf of more than 20 years-- President George W. Bush's Boeing 747 touched ground in Beijing. Trade was a key component of that 1972 rapprochement and, indeed, Premier Zhou requested that President Nixon establish a "peoples' organization" to deal with bilateral trade issues in the absence of diplomatic relations. Thu...
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