Watergate scandal

=== China ===
Chinese then-Premier [[Zhou Enlai]] said in October 1973 that the scandal did not affect the [[China–United States relations|relations between China and the United States]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sulzberger |first=C. L. |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6vdRAAAAIBAJ&pg=7052%2C5281708 |title=The Thoughts of Premier Chou |date=October 30, 1973 |work=[[Tampa Bay Times|St. Petersburg Times]] |access-date=November 21, 2016 |agency=''The New York Times'' Service |page=4–A |via=Google News |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114215042/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6vdRAAAAIBAJ&pg=7052%2C5281708 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the then–Prime Minister [[Kukrit Pramoj]] of Thailand in July 1975, Chairman [[Mao Zedong]] called the Watergate scandal "the result of 'too much [[freedom of speech|freedom of political expression]] in the U.S.{{'"}}<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GppKAAAAIBAJ&pg=1961%2C3810476 |title=Mao Tse-tung Said to Hold Former Opinion of Nixon |date=July 10, 1975 |work=[[Nashua Telegraph]] |access-date=November 22, 2014 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |page=25 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114215105/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GppKAAAAIBAJ&pg=1961%2C3810476 |url-status=live }}</ref> Mao called it "an indication of [[American isolationism]], which he saw as 'disastrous' for Europe". He further said, "Do Americans really want to go isolationist?&nbsp;... In the two [[world war]]s, the Americans came [in] very late, but all the same, they did come in. They haven't been isolationist in practice."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chamberlain |first=John |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RvdOAAAAIBAJ&pg=3293%2C3013773 |title=Another Look at Mao Tse-tung |date=November 9, 1976 |work=[[Ludington Daily News]] |access-date=November 23, 2014 |page=4 |via=[[Google News]] Archive |archive-date=April 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421144740/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RvdOAAAAIBAJ&pg=3293%2C3013773 |url-status=live }}</ref>