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The former secretary to the disgraced president talks about his new memoir and what it was like to go to prison for Nixon

It was “the week that changed the world”. On February 21 1972, Chinese leader Mao Zedong and US president Richard Nixon met in Beijing to reset their countries’ relations, which had been frozen for the previous two decades.

At the height of the Cold War, US President Richard Nixon flew into communist China's center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform US-China relations and China's position in the world in ways that were unimaginable at the time. The relationship between China and the United States…

The trip was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough at the time but now critics in the US question its wisdom

Beijing's Winter Olympics remind us of how everything in China is big, bigger — and even bigger

Since becoming China’s paramount leader in 2012, Xi Jinping has overseen enormous economic growth and solidified China’s standing as an economic and geopolitical superpower. He has also centralized his power over domestic politics. In 2018, Xi oversaw the repeal of the two-term limit on holding presidential office, which has opened…

Covering George Wallace taught me this: If people like lies better than truth, you can't change their minds