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尼克松访华演讲稿 篇一：尼克松访华演讲英文版 speech---Richard M. Nixon 1972, US president Richard M. Nixon visited China, below was his Speech at a Welcoming Banquet Mr. Prime Minister, I wish to thank you for your very gracious and eloquent remarks. At this very moment through the wonder of telecommunications, more people are seeing and hearing what we say to them than on any other such occasion in the whole history of the world. Yet, what we say here will not be long remembered. What we do here can change the world. As you said in your toast, the Chinese people are a great people, and the American people are a great people. If our two peoples are enemies, the future of this world we share together is dark indeed. But if we can find common ground to work together, the change for world peace is immeasurably increased. In the spirit of frankness which I hope will characterised our talks on this week, let us recognize at the outset those points: we have times in the past been enemies. We have great differences today. What brings us together is that we have common interests which transcend those differences. As we discuss our differences, neither of us will compromise our principle. But while we can not close the gulf between us, we can try to bridge it so that we may be able to talk across it. So, let us, in these next five years, start along march together, not in lockstep, but on different roads leading to the same goal, the goal of building a world structure of peace and justice, in which all may stand together with equal dignity and in which each nation, large or small, has a right to determine its own form of government, free of outside inference of domination. The world watches. The world listens. The world waits to see what we’ll do. What is the world? In a personal sense, I think of my eldest daughter whose birthday is today. As I think of her, I think of all the children in the world, in Asia, in Africa, in Europe, in the Americas, most of whom were born since the date of the foun