This day, 9 July, in 1971, then US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger feigned illness while in Pakistan to make a 48-hour secret visit to China. There, Premier Zhou Enlai and Kissinger held talks for 11 hours, reaching an agreement as to President Nixon’s visit to China and the draft announcement of both Kissinger’s visit and Nixon’s invitation thereto, the first ever by a US president to PRC.
1971年7月9日的这一天，当时的美国国家安全顾问亨利·基辛格在巴基斯坦秘密访问中国48小时，假装生病。 在那里，周恩来总理和基辛格进行了11个小时的会谈，就尼克松总统访问中国以及基辛格访问和尼克松邀请的公告草案达成了协议，这是美国总统首次访问中国。