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China-US relations: From ping pong to hardball

WASHINGTON - It seemed like a good idea at the time.
But "the week that changed the world" - then President Richard Nixon's description of his breakthrough February 1972 China visit and handshakes with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai - changed it in ways that the United States did not anticipate.
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