Every president has his or her doctrine towards the solution of international problems. It happens for the reason because every country does not exist alone in the world and has to deal with the issues of the other countries that surround her. The United States of America is not an exception. Every president is trying to participate in the solution of problems on the international arena. President Nixon (1969-1974) has his own understanding of the international politics: “Supply weapons but not troops to countries fighting off communism”.
President Nixon was fighting against communism. His well-known speech states: “The major problem confronting the people of the United States and free peoples everywhere in the last half of the 20th century is the threat to peace and freedom presented by the militant aggressiveness of international communism. A major weakness in this struggle is lack of adequate imderstanding of the character of the challenge which communism presents” (Nixon 1960). President Nixon, similar to his most despised opponent President Kennedy, was significantly more intrigued by outside strategy than in household issues. It happened in this enclosure that Nixon proposed to contribute. In spite of the fact that his foundation of backing was inside of the moderate wing of the Republican Party, and in spite of the fact that he had made his own particular profession as an activist adversary of Communism, Nixon saw chances to enhance relations with the Soviet Union and set up relations with the People's Republic of China. Henry Kissinger said about such an opening to China as a try to “squeeze the Soviet Union into short-term help on Vietnam” (Kissinger, 1979).
According to American Express: “Nixon envisioned a future in which more cordial relations among the major world powers -- the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Western Europe, and Japan” (American Express 2015). Not at all like his ancestor, Richard Nixon yearned to be known for his mastery in foreign policy. Albeit possessed with the Vietnam War, Nixon additionally started a few new patterns in American conciliatory relations. Nixon fought that the socialist world comprised of two adversary powers — the Soviet Union and China. Given the long history of ill will between those two countries, Nixon and his consultant Henry Kissinger, chose to endeavor that contention to win favorable circumstances for the United States. That strategy got to be known as triangular tact.
The United States had much to offer China. Since Mao Zedong's takeover in 1949, the United States had declined acknowledgment to the socialist government. Rather, the Americans swore backing to the Chinese Nationalist government in Taiwan. China was hindered from admission to the United Nations by the American veto, and Taiwan held China's seat on the Security Council.
In June 1971 Kissinger set out furtively to China to make arrangements for a Presidential visit. After Kissinger's arrival, Nixon astonished everybody by declaring that he would go to China and meet with Mao Zedong. In February 1972, Nixon visited the Great Wall and drank toasts with Chinese pioneers. Before long, the United States dropped its restriction to Chinese section in the United Nations and preparation was laid for the possible foundation of strategic relations.
Of course, this move brought on worry in the Soviet Union. Nixon would have liked to build up a detente, or a facilitating of strains, with the USSR. In May 1972, Nixon made a just as huge outing to Moscow to bolster an atomic arms understanding. The result of this visit was the strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT I). The United States and the Soviet Union vowed to confine the quantity of intercontinental ballistic rockets every side would manufacture, and to keep the advancement of ballistic missile destroying rocket frameworks. Amid Nixon's 1967 overall excursions, he communicated to Romanian Communist Party's Secretary General Nicolae Ceauşescu that "the U.S. could do little to set up successful interchanges with China until the Vietnam war [sic] was finished” (Nixon 1978).
Nixon and his Soviet partner, Leonid Brezhnev additionally consented to an exchange bargain including American wheat being sent to the USSR. The two countries went into a joint endeavor in space investigation known as apollo-soyuz.
Apparently, Nixon might have been the main president who could have achieved this plan. Anticommunism was seething in the United States. Americans would see with awesome suspicion any endeavors to make peace with either the Soviet Union or China. Nobody would test Nixon's anticommunist qualifications, given his notoriety for being a staunch red-baiter in his initial profession. His suggestions were mostly acknowledged by the American open. Despite the fact that the Cold War still blazed fervently the globe, the endeavors of Nixon and Kissinger prompted an interim defrost.
Nixon's approaches opposite China, the Soviet Union and Vietnam are his most celebrated and disputable, yet he exited his blemish on a large group of other strategic matters.
References
American Express. (2015). Foreign Affairs. Web. Retrieved from:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/nixon-foreign/.
Kissinger, H. (1979). White House Years. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, Ltd, 164.
Nixon. (1960). The Meaning of Communism to Americans. Web. Retrieved from:
http://watergate.info/1960/08/21/nixon-the-meaning-of-communism-to-americans.html
Nixon, R. (1978). The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 281.
