The Handshake That Changed the World
On February 21, 1972, Richard Nixon landed in Beijing and shook Zhou Enlai's hand, ending more than two decades of silence between the United States and China.
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A Night of Shots on the Lugou Bridge — and the War That Followed
A missing soldier, a midnight standoff, and gunfire on an ancient stone bridge pulled China and Japan into eight years of devastating war.