Dinner Diplomacy Thaws the Cold War

Sometimes sharing a good meal is the best way to resolve the differences you may have with another. For the United States and China, this strategy helped normalize relations during a peak of the Cold War.  Read more

Images from Nixon’s culinary travels through China:

Banquet place settings (cigarettes included);  Chinese people having lunch outdoors; President Nixon using chopsticks; Pat Nixon samples cuisine in the Peking Hotel kitchen;  Menu from Banquet given by Prime Minister Chou in honor of President Nixon.  February, 1972.

Source: presidentialtimeline.org

101 Notes/ Hide

  1. clairedowns reblogged this from clairedownshassomethingtosay
  2. grandmasquacks reblogged this from todaysdocument
  3. marchesamedici reblogged this from serazienne
  4. serazienne reblogged this from baramzina
  5. raherrmann reblogged this from todaysdocument
  6. algenubi reblogged this from todaysdocument
  7. mimundoescolorderosa reblogged this from todaysdocument
  8. rescrie reblogged this from lord-kitschener and added:
    A lot of duck in there, can’t help noticing.
  9. joainejan reblogged this from todaysdocument
  10. freakasaurous reblogged this from ourpresidents
  11. jayaprada reblogged this from lord-kitschener
  12. lord-kitschener reblogged this from rendezvouswithdestiny
  13. barbai reblogged this from todaysdocument
  14. dietcokeandcardigans reblogged this from todaysdocument
  15. anginn reblogged this from todaysdocument
  16. jeffinsocal reblogged this from todaysdocument
  17. carissma reblogged this from todaysdocument and added:
    Nixon embracing his inner Asian…interesting
  18. movingaverage reblogged this from todaysdocument
  19. rendezvouswithdestiny reblogged this from todaysdocument
  20. amirah21m reblogged this from todaysdocument