President Nixon along with Secretary of State Kissinger met with Mao Zedong in November 1972 in China in order to draw up the Memorandum of Conversation. The documents associated to the Memorandum deal mostly with relations throughout Asia. Nixon stated in the documents that America would count Taiwan as a part of China and will not support any independence. The documents also outlined a settlement on the Indo-Chinese War of 1962 along with discussions on the current Vietnam War. Nixon also discussed with Zedong on both countries policies with the Soviet Union. Overall, the meetings in China managed to further improve relationships between it and the United States.
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