{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_clfy36d4l7gvjn7jxxra","title":"How Washington Sold Out Tibet After Nixon’s China Gamble","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/how-washington-sold-out-tibet-after-nixons-china-gamble-clfy36d4l7","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_clfy36d4l7gvjn7jxxra","seq":1277096,"kind":"article","title":"How Washington Sold Out Tibet After Nixon’s China Gamble","url":"https://tibetexpress.net/how-washington-sold-out-tibet-after-nixons-china-gamble","summary":"By Khedroob Thondup When Richard Nixon stepped off the plane in Beijing in 1972, the world hailed it as a masterstroke of diplomacy. The United States, locked in Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, had opened a new channel with Mao Zedong’s China. Yet for Tibetans, that handshake marked the beginning of a long betrayal. Tibet was quietly sacrificed on the altar of geopolitics, and successive U.S. administrations have continued the pattern—choosing silence over principle…","published":"2026-10-02T06:08:03Z","seen":"2026-10-02T06:09:26Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-tibetexpress-net-da6740","name":"tibetexpress.net","domain":"tibetexpress.net"},"via":"kite-tibetexpress-net-da6740","topics":["asia","front slider","opinions","other news"],"authors":["Tibet Express Newsdesk"],"entities":[{"id":"Q1223","name":"Washington","type":"place"},{"id":"Q17252","name":"Tibet","type":"place"},{"id":"Q9588","name":"Richard Nixon","type":"person"}],"story":"st_clfy36d4l7gvjn7jxxra","category":"politics","category_p":0.5199999809265137,"category2":"economy-business","sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.3400000035762787,"political":0.8999999761581421}]}