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“Handshake” Successful;
Marks 40th Anniversary of Historic Breakthrough
Between America and China

February 21, 1972: President Richard Nixon and Premier Zhou Enlai shake hands at Beijing Airport, beginning a new era of positive US-China relations.

February 21, 2012: Katherine Cleveland, representing America as the great-grand-niece of President Grover Cleveland, and Zhou Hua Zhang, representing China as the nephew of Premier Zhou Enlai, shake hands in Honolulu, Hawaii before a delegation of leaders from China and America.

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The Zhou Enlai Peace Institute:
recognizing the life and achievements
of a hero of modern China

Zhou Enlai is one of the great figures of modern history.  He made vital contributions to peace, for China, America and the world.  As Premier and Foreign Minister of China from 1949 to 1976, Zhou Enlai opened the face of China to the world and established a top priority:  friendship with all people.

Only a few people have made transforming, positive contributions to the world in the past century.  Without them, key events in history might have unfolded differently. Among these giants are Mahatma Gandhi, who brought freedom to India with non-violence; Nelson Mandela, who liberated South Africa with reconciliation; and Martin Luther King, who set the highest standard for equality in America.

But there is no comparable figure from modern China, the world’s largest nation, who has achieved the highest level of international heroic recognition and respect.

The Zhou Enlai Peace Institute will change that perception.

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for the Zhou Enlai Peace Institute

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“In some sixty years of public life, I have encountered no more compelling figure than Zhou Enlai. Short, elegant, with an expressive face framing luminous eyes, he dominated by exceptional intelligence and capacity to intuit the intangibles of the psychology of his opposite number.” -- Henry Kissinger, On China....
“Zhou conducted conversations with the effortless grace and superior intelligence of the Confucian sage.” -- Henry Kissinger, On China ...
"He maintained broad and close ties with the people, and showed boundless warmheartedness towards all comrades and the people.... We should learn from his fine style -- being modest and prudent, unassuming and approachable, setting an example by his conduct, and living in a plain and hard-working way."...Deng Xiao Ping, at Zhou Enlai's funeral; January 15, 1976
“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
“The time is always right to do the right thing.” -- Martin Luther King
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with him. Then he becomes your partner.” 
-- Nelson Mandela
"The time will come when we no longer need to dedicate memorials to men who died in battle -- we will dedicate memorials to those who live in peace --- to all nations and all men." -- Senator Frank Moss at the USS Utah Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be free; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.” 
-- Lao Tse