Mao-Nixon meeting: Historic encounter still resonates 45 years later

Forty five years ago today, on February 21, 1972, China's leader Mao Zedong and US President Richard Nixon met to normalize relations between their two countries. Their meeting in Beijing was brief but it set the scene for what has become the most important economic relationship in the world. CGTN's Owen Fairclough looks back on the historic encounter.

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