Playing The China Card: Nixon And Mao

As Beijing celebrates half a century of Communist rule, America and China are once again confronting each other over Taiwan, the issue over which they have clashed for decades. Including interviews with Nixon, Kissinger and the other main players, these two highly acclaimed programmes, by an award-winning production team, tell the story of the two nations' stormy relationship over the last fifty years.The President's groundbreaking visit to China came at the start of his re-election year, and was almost a disaster for him.Nixon arrived home to cheering crowds and won an election landslide ï¾– but the Watergate scandal brought him down before he delivered his promises to China.