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The death of Kissinger ends an era in relations between the U.S. and China
Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State who died aged 91 on Friday, visited China in 1971 to open relations with the country. Kissinger also met with Li Shangfu, China’s defence minister at the time. The US-China diplomatic relationship was further opened by President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s. However, full diplomatic recognition between…
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Donald Trump has a way of speaking that is not easy to understand
Ex-US President Donald Trump’s attorneys are reportedly planning to invoke ex-US President Richard Nixon’s “selective prosecution” in his case against Trump for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election. In 1977, Nixon had said that certain actions might be against the law, but that “when the president does it, that means that it is not…