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  1. The history of early relations between the United States and China, 1784–1844 (1917) online; Li, Jing. China's America: The Chinese View the United States, 1900–2000. (State University of New York Press, 2011) Link, Arthur S. Wilson, Volume III: The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914–1915 (1960) pp 267–308; online; Madsen, Richard.

  2. Chinese leader Xi Jinping with US President Joe Biden at the 17th G20 in Bali, November 2022. [ 1 ] The relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the United States of America (USA) has been complex and at times tense since the establishment of the PRC and the retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan in 1949.

    • Separated at Birth
    • Korean War
    • 1953-1958: Taiwan Straits Crisis
    • 1964 – China Gets The Bomb
    • 1969 – Sino-Russian Border Crisis
    • 1971 – Kissinger’s Secret Flight
    • 1972 – Nixon Goes to China
    • 1979 – One China Policy and The Taiwan Relations Act
    • 1982 – Reagan’s Six Assurances
    • 1989 – Tiananmen Square Massacre

    Although they were ostensibly united against occupying forces during World War II, China’s nationalist and communist factions renew hostilities upon Japan’s surrender in 1945. The US Department of State issues the China White Paper, stating its intention to stay out of the Chinese civil war as it neither should nor could influence the outcome. Chia...

    The end of World War II left the Korean Peninsula divided along the 38th parallel between a Soviet-backed North and a US-backed South. The North Korean People’s Army invades the South in June, prompting a defence from United Nations forces led by the US. Later that year, China enters the fray after southern forces near its border. Three years and m...

    Despite stating in January 1950 that the US would not intervene in Taiwan Strait disputes, the outbreak of the Korean War that June, and possibly the capture of Hainan by communist forces in March, prompts US President Harry Truman to declare it in US interests to keep the Taiwan Straits “neutral”. Truman sends the US Navy there to prevent either s...

    Driven by the US’s previous threats to use nuclear weapons, Mao pushes for China to develop its own nuclear deterrent. In the early 1950s, China had struck a secret deal with the Soviet Union to exchange uranium ore for nuclear know-how. However, the two later fell out over Nikita Krushev’s plans to discuss arms control in a bid to peacefully coexi...

    Chinese and Soviet differences in dogma blow up into conflict when Beijing orders troops to take over Zhenbao Island on the countries’ eastern border, with fighting also breaking out on China’s northwestern border in Xinjiang. The seven-month conflict sets the scene for ping-pong diplomacy and US President Richard Nixon’s landmark visit in 1972.

    After a friendly encounter between competitors at the World Table Tennis Championships in Japan, a delegation of US players is invited to tour China, which had been off-limits to Americans since the Korean War. The visit goes well and paves the way for Pakistan to broker a secret visit to China by US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger later ...

    At this time, the only things China and the US have in common are their leaders’ pragmatism and a common foe in the Soviet Union. During Nixon’s seven-day visit to China, he meets with Mao and, along with Zhou Enlai, signs the Shanghai Communique – the document that forms the bedrock of subsequent US-China diplomatic ties and provides a mechanism f...

    Now led by Democratic US President Jimmy Carter, and a reformer, Deng Xiaoping, the two countries issue the Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, normalising their ties. The US also endorses the One China Policy and transfers diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. China hawk and one-time Republican presidential hope...

    Like the administration before him, US President Ronald Reagan manages to bolster ties with both sides of the Taiwan Straits. He issues the Six Assurances to Taiwan, which includes pledges to not mediate between both Chinas, honour the Taiwan Relations Act and have no plans to stop arms sales to Taipei. Later, Reagan’s zeal to contain an expansioni...

    Chinese troops violently put down a peaceful student-led protest in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The crushing of the protests sees China become an international pariah overnight. US President George H W Bush halts arms sales to China and puts relations on hold.

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  3. Aug 21, 2015 · A 1941 United China Relief documentary contains an intriguing quote from Pearl S. Buck, an American who grew up in China and set her novels in the country. “I believe that China is at this very ...

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  4. Sep 27, 2021 · The “fall” of mainland China to communism in 1949 led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades. Communist revolt in 1927 almost destroys the Communist Party. The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 in Shanghai, originally existed as a study group working within the confines of the First United Front with ...

  5. 1949 – 2024. U.S.-China Relations. The United States and China have one of the world’s most important and complex bilateral relationships. Since 1949, the countries have experienced periods of ...

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  7. Apr 7, 2021 · Interviews| Diplomacy. A First-Hand View of 70 Years of China-US Relations. Chi Wang relates his experiences as a Chinese American, charting the highs and lows of China-U.S. relations from 1949 to ...

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