On this day, 52 years ago, on February 17, 1973 (January 15, 1973 lunar calendar), Mao Zedong met with Kissinger. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai met with Kissinger. On February 17, 1973, Mao Zedong met with Dr. Henry Kissinger, Assistant to the US President for National Security Affairs, in Zhongnanhai. The two sides had a frank and extensive conversation in an unrestrained atmosphere. Mao Zedong praised Kissinger, who had just signed the Vietnam peace agreement, and said: You have done a good job, flying everywhere. Are you a swallow or a dove? The Vietnam issue can be regarded as basically solved. Kissinger said: We need a transition period to calm now. Mao Zedong said: As long as the goal is the same, we will not harm you, and you will not harm us. We hope you will cooperate with Europe and Japan. Some things can be noisy and noisy, but basically we have to cooperate! Mao Zedong also talked about the xenophobia of the Chinese. He said to Kissinger: You can accommodate many ethnic groups, and we don't have many foreigners in China. Kissinger believes: This is because you are not lucky to deal with foreigners in history. Mao Zedong said: There is such a reason. For the past 100 years, it was mainly the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and then the Japanese occupied China for 14 years and occupied most of the territory. At the end of the conversation, Mao Zedong asked Kissinger to convey to President Nixon that he apologized to foreign experts who were wrongly criticized or forced to leave our country during the "Cultural Revolution" and welcomed them back to China. Mao Zedong and Kissinger had a cordial conversation