President Nixon's Toast to Premier Chou En-Lai

February 21, 1972: President Nixon, on the first day of his historic trip in China, toasts Premier Chou en-Lai at the Great Hall of the People.

[@wy7782]

"As you said in your toast, the Chinese people are a great people. The American people are a great people. If our two peoples are enemies, the future of this world we share together is dark indeed. But if we can find common ground to work together, the chance for world peace is immeasurably increased."

[@gokaicontracting9889]

周的最佳发言。

[@andro7862]

Words that have only grown in importance today.

[@gerilaforte1266]

I’ve recently taken an interest in President Nixon as a great American and world leader; eloquent and determined to take action as great leaders must! I deeply admire President Nixon’s accomplishments and his incredible positive impact on global happenings in his time; opening the world to China…a truly great man.

[@bulkmailbullseye70]

The only public servant and leader who actually said meaningful things and ideas, as opposed to rhetorical speak only.

[@fenxian]

Can you read the mind of Premier Zhou from his great intensity of eyes?

[@owenxu905]

Man the leaders back then were legit compared to what we have now

[@luima7571]

Long lives to U.S.-China relation and friendship! Peace to the world!

[@Dovid2000]

An historic moment worthy of note. China has come a long way since that time.

[@vanwei9756]

Nixon's speech still echos today. The "gulf" of differences between China and the US today is for sure narrower than it was in Nixon's time, but the leaders then had the wisdom and courage to build a bridge to cross that gulf. 47 years later, are we trying to close that bridge and bring in what Nixon called "the doomed future for mankind"?

[@codyshi4743]

Long live U.S. and China friendship 🇺🇸🤝🇨🇳

[@rtech888]

The Americans of today should listen to these words by Nixon

[@akhterahmed5205]

Great words by President Nixon. The Chinese knows how much to trust him. Americans are great people with two hundred years of history!

[@cmhan3244]

尼克松总统一上来就感谢了做国宴的工作人员和军乐队。如果，中国人能够有美国人的机会，当时就能通过电视直播看到这些，包括周总理的讲话，唉。。。。说不下去了。

[@TheSmsawyer]

Damn, that was a great speech. You almost feel bad for Richard Nixon.

[@g0inturbo]

Toasting of the brows. That's some true browmance. I'll see myself browt.

[@shopkedai]

President Nixon great courage and vision set the foundation for Sino American relationship. It's was the turning point for peace and prosperity in Asia. It's very true, we should not send our son and daughter to die in a war that there is no winner but death await them. My respect for both President Nixon and Premier Zhou En Lai for putting aside the differences but worked toward peaceful co existence and non interference. Today we reaped the fruit of that historical day and witnessed the close relationship between President Trump and President Xi. Premier Zhou once said to an American in an interview, the Socialist Chinese mean every word they publicly said and not said one thing and do another thing. The reception that President Trump received is a Chinese hospitality to an old friend.

[@desmondhargroves1844]

A superior and laudable statesman .Capable of inestimable empathy and foresight . RMN was a complicated man imbued by dichotomy ; like most great men. Ergo, a man of frailties and attributes ! Sadly his detractors , posthumously less I'd imagine, are myopically fixated on Watergate .

[@ajax700]

He despised blacks, he started the war on drugs to have an excuse to persecute and jail black persons and other minorities. You can hear his famous white house tapes. He was not empathic with most, I assure you. Specially if you were not white and pro war. Best wishes.

[@honguenloh4612]

If only usa has a leader like Nixon now…then the current situation will never happen…:(

[@lmcoopie]

We need a brilliant president right now.

[@loklou1378]

兄弟，喝了这一杯好上路，

[@user-tu3dl7sb9t]

🤝

[@lorimeyers3839]

What’s the joke Nixon said? He compares something in China and says I’ll have another” or something?

[@user-uy2vj5xe8l]

Zhou died of cancer in 1976

[@foohuameng2404]

伟大的毛主席 伟大的周总理 我爱你们

[@user-uy2vj5xe8l]

North vietnam said wtf so did north korea

[@user-uy2vj5xe8l]

Nixon got blitzed on mao tai plum brandy

[@kamalindsey]

America got played pretty well here by China haha

[@checkmoteur2103]

please if you want to do something serious, seriously do some homework, its Zhou enlai not Chou en-lai. He met with Nixon as the highest rank official of PRC, and the official latin spelling of his family name is Zhou, as pronounced in Mandarin, the official language of PRC, not Chou, as pronounced in Cantonese, a dialect of Chinese Language family. Chou when read in Mandarin, very close to a word literally means stinks. This guy might be deemed as stinking in history book in many ways but, that's not you guys intend to do is it

[@zenodotusofathens2122]

W Joshua sir you really don't know what you are talking about. Your words are very self-righteous. I have studied the Chinese language for 45 years. How Chinese is romanized into English is based upon several different types of romanization systems. According to the Wade Giles System the man's name is romanized as "Chou." Sometime around 1975 the mainland Chinese system [known as Pin Yin] took root in the West and it is spelled Zhou. This has nothing to do with Cantonese as you seem to suggest. There is also a Yale system. Please educate yourself.

[@Jay-zv9on]

Zenodotus Of Athens The Wade Giles System has been outdated for a long time. The new Hanyu Pinyin system has been the official romanization of Mandarin Chinese for decades now, and is used both in China and in overseas classrooms since it is the accurate transliteration of Chinese in terms of pronounciation. zhouenlai, when typed will become 周恩来。I have rarely heard of people using such an old system.

[@george6210]

The English version of his name was officially called such way as early as 1940's or even early just like Mao Tse Tong and Chiang Kai sek. Please learn some history before you make any comments.

[@andro7862]

Chou En-lai and Zhou Enlai are both mandarin written in different romanizations. It has nothing to do with cantonese. Why don't _you_ do some research before commenting?

[@lilmane1070]

@@Jay-zv9on Pinyin is standard in the PRC, it’s not universal. And you do still see the older systems today in historical contexts. this title, I imagine, was just copied from some original heading for the event made at the time or something

[@jarrodyuki7081]

china vs usa....

[@gregorywinter4132]

剁骨刀 剔骨刀 铁锤 水电 高压锅 碎肉机 时间 犬

[@gokaicontracting9889]

一顿大餐，鲍鱼就捞了超过一吨。尼克松感动了。音乐，茅台酒，珍馐美味，周恩来知道该怎样对待准备签合同的美国人。

[@user-fq5vp9xv7c]

你们家国宴吃窝头吗？不都是买鲍鱼吗？还TM现捞 你怎么不说这菜也是现种的那 ⏳🖌吧你

[@gokaicontracting9889]

@@user-fq5vp9xv7c 你对历史的了解仅限于现在饭店里的菜单。鲍鱼是冬天潜水在渤海湾大连地区捞的。从来没有冬天捕捞过，但做为政治任务，出动了渔民和海军潜水员，一共捞了一吨多新鲜大个儿鲍鱼。运到北京孝敬美国人和周恩来的亲密战友。你的亲属1972年吃过什么，你可以问问。这种招待，是你和你所接触的人没有经历过的

[@user-fq5vp9xv7c]

@@gokaicontracting9889 傻逼吧你，鲍鱼是可以冷藏和养殖的。推一万步说就算现捞的也TM值得。我们和美国建交恢复了联合国席位，抵御了苏联可能的进攻。为后10年到来的改革开放获得良好国际环境。这1吨鲍鱼太值了。

[@gokaicontracting9889]

@@user-fq5vp9xv7c 满嘴生殖器，说这个傻逼那个傻逼，你问问你爹妈1972年吃过冷藏，养殖的鲍鱼没有。你了解的重大历史哪一个是你家里人经历过的？都是从媒体得到的。你一个底层，要么在监狱码字儿混减刑，要么在国外炒油锅，能谈点真正经历过的历史就谈谈，公开宣传的东西用你来传递？公开宣传的东西就是给你这样的消化的，用你的话说，时可以冷藏和养殖。1972年冷藏和养殖，你才是傻逼。

[@user-fq5vp9xv7c]

@@gokaicontracting9889 得着抓的鲍鱼 你能得瑟一辈子 就不想想中国获得了什么 你个SB

[@gokaicontracting9889]

看到周激动，严肃的神情。他无论也想不到随后几周邓小平对他展开了毛授意下的猛烈批判。他在中美关系中，最关键的台湾部分，毛下注很大，他表现出了胆怯，令毛看穿了周的虚弱。毛周这对冤家，在中美建交这件事情上，合作完美。

[@1271108227]

你真厉害，说得跟你在现场似的，你怎么不去说评书去？太可惜了。

[@jinskyjoyous]

一派胡言😂