it loosened up. 1972, when nixon visited china, diplomacy, it got further better. the first few years were probably the worst. tavis: i want to fast forward because you end up doing some more to expose another atrocity in the people's republic of china, as relates specifically to the one child policy. so take me from the camp where you were held during the cultural revolution. advance me a few years to your working on the writings about the one-child policy. >> so the cultural revolution ended in 1976, and then the university in 1977. i went to college in 1978, when my father came back. i did not have any choice of what to study. i wanted to be an astronaut, but i ended up to study chinese literature, because that was an assigned maj. before graduation, i decided to do humanitarian work for my thesis research. i heard that girls were being killed or were having abortions in very late terms due to the one-child policy. the one-child policy is that every couple can have just one child. farmers wanted boys. so i wanted to do that research, and i turned my research to

cutting defense and hence the hagel choice it's called the nixon to china effect only republican richard nixon could have gotten away with visiting communist china the democrat would have been roasted by republicans for doing the same thing that's what i think is happening here sure there's a lot of reasons to be an easy about republican chuck hagel heading up the defense department it might be the only way we can get those much needed defense cuts down the road state to. you or me or your right. to make. sure. you go to school. biological warfare nuclear weapons cyber attacks these are just a few of the things that worry us government officials and keep them up at night there's one type of attack that most likely you've never heard about and yet has the potential to cause tens of millions of casualties if you think a nuclear bomb or chemical attack is as bad as it gets when it comes to modern warfare and everything you know is wrong joining me now is f. michael maloof former security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense and author of the book a nation forsaken e.m.p. the escalating threat of an american catas

by mid 1971 their efforts had paid off, and china extended an invitation to the president to visit peking. not only would nixon be the first u.s. president to visit the people's republic of china, but because of china's self-imposed isolation, one of a limited group of westerners who had ever be been there. as a result, there was tremendous worldwide interest in the trip. when china decided to allow the american press to tag along with the president and mrs. nixon, people around the world followed the february 1972 journey with tremendous interest. dick had to remain sequestered with the chinese leaders much of the time. pat was the representative who introduced americans to china, represented the american people to the chinese. if she had not already realized what a great responsibility she had on her shoulders, the briefing papers she got from the state department made it explicitly clear. emphasizing her role and the unique opportunity the trip represented to reestablish communication between the women of china and america, the state department reminded her that she would be the first leading american woman

north korean visit or try to figure out why schmidt is going in the first place or why the new leader invited him, it's a good idea to appreciate that it's happening at all it nixon going to china on a much smaller scale perhaps. is google going to track the north korean market considering how few computers there are in north korea it probably doesn't need to. google hasn't been able to come to an agreement with china after all but the internet as represented by google coming to the people's republic in the form of one man is big steps. you look of gorbachev, when he first came to power you weren't sure what he was used to. we saw his wife for the first time. we saw kim jong-un's for the first time recently. look at what happened. it changed forever. russia got away from him. it's an interesting tiny first step. >> we know you'll be on top of it. thank you very much. >> on top of the forecast always for us, meteorologist christina loren joins us right now with a look at the forecast. >> good morning to you, jon and laura. good morning to you at home. hold on a second. a wild hair there. we got temperatures out there that are freezing cold and it's really dry so, ladies, that me

a permanent dialogue with china had begun, sweeping negotiations on the nuclear issues being undertaken with the soviet union. richard nixon was the first president to visit eastern europe, choosing in fact the day the president was supposed to be there and they had to paint over the signs to welcome richard nixon. he had conducted a diplomacy in the middle east that removed soviet military power from egypt , brought about a diplomatic change and started agreements, one of which was area survived until the turmoil, not the apartment irrelevant, which were thick he carried out. one can link all of these two treatments. i would say the fundamental effort wasted and the american occupation between extremes of commitment and extreme withdraw to create a permanent pattern in which foreign policy could he understood. he approached foreign policy from the point of view of national interest and permanent values and maintains those under the most difficult circumstances imagine the president who blockades vietnam two weeks before he was supposed to visit the soviet union. five months before a national election and then goes to moscow anyway and sends the most nucl