China and the United States Look at the tags on your clothes or your backpack and see where they were made. There's a good chance it was made in China. Today, the United States has an open-trade policy with China but it wasn't always this way. If it weren't for President Richard Nixon's trip to China in 1972 we wouldn't have good relations and wouldn't be trading goods with China today. Before Nixon visited China, the …showed first 75 words of 1096 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1096 total…was never a priority to the United States. Before his visit, we were fighting against China in wars such as the Korean War. We were also in the middle of a cold war against China. President Nixon's visit put us on good terms with China for the first time in history and set a pathway for the United States and China to follow which led to good relations and good trades between the countries today.