President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger , then the national security adviser , were imaginative enough to accept the invitation to visit China from Chairman Mao Zedong and Prime Minister Zhou Enlai , even though neither Ping-Pong nor a simple visit touched on the basic issues between China and the United States .
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