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Nixon's visit to China: 50 years on
Owen Fairclough

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50 years ago, U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China to try to find, as he described it, common ground.

Relations between the two countries had been frozen by the Cold War.

The historic meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong paved the way for the world's most important bilateral trade relationship, though in recent years it's been engulfed by damaging commercial battles.

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