{"id":480062,"date":"2026-02-20T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:50:08","slug":"nixon-was-the-first-united-states-president-to-visit-communist-controlled-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480062\/","title":{"rendered":"Nixon was the first United States president to visit Communist-controlled China."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONROE, La. (KNOE) &#8211; The week of Feb. 20, 1972 was called the week that changed the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">President Richard Nixon ended a 20-year stand-off between the People\u2019s Republic of China and the United States with a visit to Peking and Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nixon was the first United States president to visit Communist-controlled China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Talks with China\u2019s leaders centered on ways to normalize diplomatic relations and trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">China\u2019s Premier said the \u201cgate to friendly contact has finally been opened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KNOE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONROE, La. (KNOE) &#8211; The week of Feb. 20, 1972 was called the week that changed the world.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,151229,151230,3,8593,221690,8271,221689,4633,31887,121861,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-480062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-good-morning-arklamiss","10":"tag-good-morning-arklamiss-knoe","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-peking","13":"tag-peoples-republic-of-china","14":"tag-president-nixon","15":"tag-president-richard-nixon","16":"tag-shanghai","17":"tag-this-day-in-history","18":"tag-this-day-in-history-knoe","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}