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

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    A lot of duck in there, can’t help noticing.
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    Nixon embracing his inner Asian…interesting
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