EXCLUSIVE - The Jericho Report
Nixon, China & 'A New World Order' Part 2
" ...each of us has to build A NEW WORLD ORDER,
in which nations and peoples with different systems
and different values can live together in peace ..."
 Richard Nixon in China, Feb. 25, 1972

Nixon's Call to China for "A New World Order"

On the night of February 25th, 1972, during his historic trip to China, President Nixon hosted a banquet for his Chinese hosts, most notably Premier Chou En-lai, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

In his toast to Premier Chou, Nixon said,

"You believe deeply in your system, and we believe just as deeply in our system. It is not our common beliefs that have brought us together here, but our common interests and our common hopes, the interest that each of us has to maintain our independence and the security of our peoples, and the hope that each of us has to build A NEW WORLD ORDER, in which nations and peoples with different systems and different values can live together in peace, respecting one another while disagreeing with one another, letting history rather than the battlefield be the judge of their different ideas."

He used the phrase "a New World Order" 19 years before it was repeated by President George H. W. Bush.

Nixon tells the right wing to back off

Scene from the movie Nixon starring Anthony Hopkins

Nixon's overtures and trip to China, heralded by liberals, rubbed a sensitive nerve among his conservative backers and among conservative military officials who continued to see China as a major emerging threat, partnered with the Soviet Union. Hearing Nixon call for "a New World Order" sent chills down the spines of those who had long seen the NWO as a communist threat to U.S. capitalism.

U.S. intelligence continually found that China had intentions to retake Taiwan, which Eisenhower had publicly committed to defend, and doubts began to be raised about Nixon's "true conservatism."

His brutal use of the Internal Revenue Service to "go after" those who disagreed with him, on such things as integration and environmental protection (such as the EPA and Clean Water Act) contributed ammunition to those even in his own circles who felt that perhaps Nixon was not a "true believer" but an opportunist who would sell out the conservative cause if it would help keep him in office.

Did these developments contribute to the growing rift between Nixon and the CIA-military branches of government?

Nixon, after all, had promised to get America out of Vietnam, though the military industrialists and many of the generals and some Cabinet members such as Robert "Body Count" McNamara continued to push for an even wider expansion of the war ... a path Nixon eventually followed.