PRC Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang address the guests in his first visit to the U.S. West Coast
Last evening, more than 300 leaders of the Southern California Chinese-American community gathered to recreate the dinner hosted in honor of President and Mrs. Nixon by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai 50 years ago in the Great Hall of the People.
A video message from Dr. Henry Kissinger began the evening’s program.
In-person remarks were delivered by current and former American and Chinese government officials and diplomats including The Honorable Elaine Chao, 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor and 18th U.S. Secretary of Transportation and the first Chinese American to be appointed to a President’s cabinet in American history, former U.S. Ambassador to the PRC Stapleton Roy, and PRC Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang in his first visit to the U.S. West Coast.
Throughout the year, the Nixon Foundation will serve as a convening authority for open, honest, and candid conversations to understand how and why President Nixon’s trip to the PRC was central to his visionary foreign policy, to drive a wedge between China and the Soviet Union and win the Cold War.
