An interesting story about Nixon's visit to China that year

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It was 1972, and we were elementary school students, and one day we read the news of US President Richard Nixon's visit to China, accompanied by many photographs. After reading it, the students did not understand very well, and asked the teacher, this Yankee is not our enemy, why do you still welcome them to come? Still friends? The class teacher, Mr. Kim, explained to us that US imperialism is bad, but the American people are good, just like our Chinese people, they are good people, and what is bad is their country, their social system, the imperialists among them. Now that China is stronger, we have beaten the US Empire to the bitter end in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. They were scared.

We know that all reactionaries are paper tigers, that US imperialism is a paper tiger, that the east wind blows, that the drums of war beat, and that who in the world is now afraid of whom, not that the people are afraid of US imperialism, but that US imperialism is afraid of the people. This slogan is popular. What we don't understand is why we should be friends with their AMERICAN empire?

Teacher Jin said that we are friends with the American people and friendly with the American people. She pointed to the photo and said, you see, this US President Nixon flew from the United States to our Country from the United States, and when he got off the plane, he ran over and respectfully shook hands with our Premier Zhou, which meant surrendering and admitting his mistake. Since we have taken the initiative to admit our mistakes and curry favor, it is good that we will not need to fight back and forth in the future, and the people of both countries can live a peaceful life.

Later, there were more and more news and folk gossip in the newspapers, and the big-nosed Nixon shook hands with Chairman Mao again, and listened to Chairman Mao's lectures in a disciplined manner; this big-nosed Nixon wanted to do a good job of climbing the Great Wall, went to Shanghai to buy things, and went to Hangzhou to have fun in paradise on earth, and the school also instructed the students not to shout slogans such as overthrowing US imperialism at will. Because Mrs. Nixon liked giant pandas, Premier Zhou Enlai sent them a pair of giant pandas. Nixon became one of our most impressive Americans. There's also a guy named Dr. Kissinger. We also know that this time Nixon came to China, the earliest because of table tennis, Chinese athletes in Japan, encountered American athletes on the wrong car, world champion Zhuang Zedong gave him a gift. After Chairman Mao found out, he praised this Zhuang Zedong, not only playing the ball well, but also doing diplomacy. This is ping-pong diplomacy. The old man made a decision to invite the American table tennis team to visit. Later, through Kissinger's needle lead, President Nixon also came.

Soon after President Nixon returned home, there were many anecdotes from the people, saying that when Nixon was drinking, the wine glass broke his nose and was drunk by Premier Zhou. The Americans want to make things difficult for Premier Zhou and ask how many people are there in China? Premier Zhou replied that there were two people, one man and one woman. The Americans also asked, how much money does China have? Premier Zhou said that there were eighteen octagons and eight cents, because the denomination at that time was ten yuan, five yuan, two yuan, one yuan, and the horns were the same, and the points were the same, so it was eighteen octagons and eight cents. The Americans were dumbfounded, embarrassed, and wanted to earn back some face, so they said that their American spaceship was on the moon. Premier Zhou replied, what is this, thousands of years ago we had a beautiful woman named Chang'e who went to the moon and lived in Guanghan Palace. The Americans looked at the pen in Premier Zhou's jacket pocket and said, this is their American production, the prime minister does not like to buy their American goods. Premier Zhou said loudly that this is what our fighters captured from the American soldiers in the Korean battlefield and used it at the signing ceremony of the US military surrender at Panmunjom, and I feel that it is very meaningful to leave it as a memorial. The Americans are gray and slippery, and they have failed. Since then, I have admired Premier Zhou, who is an amazing person.