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It marked the re-opening of U.S. relations with China. No sitting US President had ever visited China. Herbert Hoover had lived there as a young mining engineer, along with his wife, during the time of the Boxer Rebellion (1900). "No president had visited there since the Communist government took power" is not the correct answer, but appears on trivia quiz sites.

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Nixon tried to get on good terms with China as well as the Soviet Union by making these trips---so he could make peace...

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