In 1972, President Richard Nixon visited the People Republic of China and met with chairman Mao Tse Tung and Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai.
This visit, which took place in the middle of the Cold War era, caused great interest throughout the world and broke with twenty years of tense relations between Washington and Beijing.
It should be noted that formally the purpose of this visit was to normalize relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China, but this trip also opened the doors of China to the West and paved the way for the re-establishment of relations with Western countries after the October Revolution (1949) when the island of Taiwan separated from mainland China and became the "only China" recognized by the United Nations.
Gulf of Guinea, part of the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean off the western African coast, extending westward from near the Equator, to Cape Palmas at longitude west. Its major tributaries include the Volta and rivers.
The laws that were passed as a result of the muckraking literature of Upton Sinclair were <span>Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and Meat Inspection Act of 1906.</span>
