US-China Relations: An Olympic Challenge Part 1
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US-China Relations: An Olympic Challenge Part 1

The Conference Board President and CEO Steve Odland sits down with Cox to discuss Nixon’s foreign policy and the history of US-China relations.

“He told me, ‘Well, I’m going to go to Peking, then I’m going to go to Moscow, and that’s the way we will end the (Vietnam) War.’” Ed Cox is recalling a conversation with Richard Nixon in February 1968, when Nixon was running for President and Cox was dating his daughter Tricia. Cox is a former head of the New York Republican State Committee, a Trustee of CED, the public policy center of The Conference Board—and Tricia Nixon’s husband. In a new episode of CEO Perspectives, The Conference Board President and CEO Steve Odland sits down with Cox to discuss Nixon’s foreign policy and the history of US-China relations. Tune in for insights on:

  • Details of Nixon’s groundbreaking trip to China: When the President arrived at the Beijing airport, there was no schedule or certainty that he would even meet with Chinese leaders.
  • Détente with the Soviet Union: Nixon’s risky military maneuvers in Vietnam before his trip to Moscow.
  • The “Shanghai Communiqué”: A partial solution to the longtime tensions between Taiwan and mainland China.
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“He told me, ‘Well, I’m going to go to Peking, then I’m going to go to Moscow, and that’s the way we will end the (Vietnam) War.’” Ed Cox is recalling a conversation with Richard Nixon in February 1968, when Nixon was running for President and Cox was dating his daughter Tricia. Cox is a former head of the New York Republican State Committee, a Trustee of CED, the public policy center of The Conference Board—and Tricia Nixon’s husband. In a new episode of CEO Perspectives, The Conference Board President and CEO Steve Odland sits down with Cox to discuss Nixon’s foreign policy and the history of US-China relations. Tune in for insights on:

  • Details of Nixon’s groundbreaking trip to China: When the President arrived at the Beijing airport, there was no schedule or certainty that he would even meet with Chinese leaders.
  • Détente with the Soviet Union: Nixon’s risky military maneuvers in Vietnam before his trip to Moscow.
  • The “Shanghai Communiqué”: A partial solution to the longtime tensions between Taiwan and mainland China.

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