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title: "What were Nixon's policies toward China and the Soviet Union? Why were they so surprising at the time?"  
description: "What were Nixon's policies toward China and the Soviet Union? Why were they so surprising at the time?"  
author: "Cox elliott"  
published: 2018-05-30  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43462/what-were-nixon-s-policies-toward-china-and-the-soviet-union-why-were-they-so-surprising-at-the-time  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What were Nixon's policies toward China and the Soviet Union? Why were they so surprising at the time?

What were Nixon's policies toward [China](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1952/nvidia-was-ordered-by-us-officials-to-halt-sales-of-ai-chips-to-china) and the Soviet [Union](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1510/union-example-in-sql-server)? Why were they so surprising at the time?


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