Introduction: In 1972, China and the United States, which were once incompatible, began a peaceful life. After that, US President Nixon personally came to China to visit and exchange, and Nixon came to China this time not only to meet the leader, but also to communicate with the leader. He also met Premier Zhou and hoped that Premier Zhou would let the two people return to China. So who are these two people? Why did President Nixon intercede in person? Let's take a look.
Before Nixon became president of the United States, the relationship between China and the United States was very bad. At that time, because China and the Soviet Union had relatively good relations, the United States always regarded China as an enemy. At that time, in order to gain power in China, the United States vigorously supported the National Government, but it did not expect to fail.
Later, the United States gradually lost control of China's power, which greatly threatened their position in Asia. After the founding of New China, because of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the relations between the United States and China reached the worst situation.
In order to make China submit, the United States imposed a blockade policy on China, but even then China did not choose to give in. In this way, the relationship between the two sides became more and more rigid, but what I did not expect was that this situation had changed in the sixties.
In the 1960s, relations between the Soviet Union and China began to deteriorate, and the United States feared that it would be suppressed by the Soviet Union and that its superpower status would not be preserved. Because there is the same enemy, two countries with deteriorating relations become comrades in arms of the united front.
In 1970, after many exchanges with China, Nixon began to think about his previous attitude toward China. In early 1972, after many exchanges of thought, China and the United States decided to meet in detail, and Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit China.
Both countries were well prepared prior to the visit, so the visit was a great success. On February 8, China and the United States jointly issued a Joint Communiqué, indicating that the relationship between the two countries officially broke the ice.
During this meeting, President Nixon and Premier Zhou exchanged very friendly exchanges. After a period of exchange, Nixon made a request to Premier Zhou that the United States have two powerful spies who were previously caught by China and are still being held in China, and Nixon hopes that China can release them.
The two spies were arrested during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in order to obtain some information about China. The abilities of these two spies were excellent, and the United States sent them both to the northeast border to command other agents there, and then to establish their base in the northeast.
But the U.S. army did not expect that the few agents they sent had already been detected by our army. After discovering them, our army exercised close supervision over them, and finally captured them all without them noticing.
After these agents were captured, in order to save their lives, they completely entrusted the plan formulated by the United States. Therefore, before the United States sent two excellent spies to the northeast, our army had already sent personnel to wait in the northeast.
Before these two excellent spies could start doing anything, they were captured by our army as soon as they arrived in the northeast and became prisoners. After being caught, one of the spies was sentenced to life imprisonment and the other to twenty years in prison.
The United States is very sad to learn that two excellent spies have been arrested, and it is very difficult to cultivate a good spy. In particular, two excellent spies were lost. So in order to get China to release the two spies, the United States has made many threats to China, but China has never agreed to their demands.
The two spies were too important to the United States, so after the rapprochement between China and the United States. Nixon and Premier Zhou suggested that the two spies had been detained for so long. The United States has really done something wrong in this matter, and the punishment they deserve is also deserved. But now that it's been so long, hopefully China will treat them leniently.
Premier Zhou had long expected President Nixon to make such a request, so after President Nixon finished speaking, Premier Zhou considered it for a while. Thinking that these two spies have been duly punished, the United States has also admitted their crimes, and now that Sino-US relations have just eased, it is better to go with the flow.
In the end, Premier Zhou agreed to President Nixon's request and said he would deal with the matter as soon as possible. President Nixon then returned after a period of time in China, and the two spies were soon released.
Summary: China and the United States were once fierce enemies, but as the situation changed, China and the United States changed from former enemies to friends. All this shows that China's diplomacy is constantly making progress, and this matter has become history, but I believe that China's diplomacy will get better and better, and it will achieve unlimited possibilities.
【Source: Beijing Literature】
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