Cold War Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Sino-Soviet split and Nixon-China visit=== [[File:President Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-Lai Shake Hands at the Nixons' Arrival in Peking, China.jpg|thumb|U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] shakes hands with Chinese Premier [[Zhou Enlai]] at [[Beijing Capital International Airport]]]] As a result of the [[Sino-Soviet split]], tensions along the Chinese–Soviet border [[Sino-Soviet border conflict|reached their peak]] in 1969. United States President [[Richard Nixon]] decided to use the conflict to shift the balance of power towards the West in the Cold War through a policy of rapproachment with China, which began with his [[1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China|1972 visit to China]] and culminated in 1979 with the signing of the [[Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations]] by [[Visit by Deng Xiaoping to the United States|President Carter and Chinese President Deng Xiaoping]].<ref>{{Cite journal|date=January 1979|title=People's Republic of China-United States: Establishment of Diplomatic Relations|journal=International Legal Materials|volume=18|issue=1|pages=272–275|doi=10.1017/s0020782900043886|s2cid=249005911 |issn=0020-7829}}</ref>{{sfn|Gaddis|2005|pp=149–152}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page