During the team’s visit to China, President Nixon announced that Chinese could get visas to the US and that currency controls would be relaxed so that China could more readily use dollars. Click here to read the document.
That evening, Nixon spoke with Kissinger by phone. They discuss reaction to Nixon’s announcement. Nixon told Kissinger, “Now on the China thing that we have to realize, Henry, is that in terms of the American public opinion, it is still against Communist China. ” They also discussed reactions in Taiwan. Continue reading “Imports from China would be permitted as well as exports”