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This episode of The Great Wager includes exclusive information about how Chinese and American intel officials agreed to work together against their common rival of many years.

Today, the rise of China has changed everything.

The news of President Nixon’s trip to China is public, and he’s getting credit for pulling off such a historic event. Now, he and his advisers have to work with the Chinese to forge a relationship between two very different countries.

This episode of The Great Wager includes exclusive information about how Chinese and American intel officials agreed to work together against their common rival of many years.

President Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger make contact with China. But in the midst of the Cold War, they don’t want anyone to know.

President Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger make contact with China. But in the midst of the Cold War, they don’t want anyone to know.

How Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger made friends with China 50 years ago — and how it’s all falling apart.

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Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow earlier this week, his first journey abroad as China’s new Head of State, has raised interesting questions about China’s ambitions in Asia, and coupled with Washington’s “pivot to Asia” is resurrecting the specter of a strategic standoff between Southern and Northern Asia around the world’s two leading superpowers. How realistic is this vision?

Jane Perlez has been a reporter at The New York Times since 1981. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for coverage of the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has reported on wars, diplomacy, and foreign policy from Somalia to Poland to Indonesia. Since moving to Beijing in 2012, she’s written about everything from China’s space program to the