"Skipper" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:

http://hongkong.usconsulate.gov/uscn/docs/jc/790101.htm

"The United States of America and the People's Republic of China have
agreed to recognize each other and to establish diplomatic relations as
of
January 1, 1979."

Article's right. You're wrong.

Oh. I forgot. You need simplicity, so you point to the date when a piece
of
paper was signed. You don't want to know that the Chinese put on a
banquet
for Nixon in 69 or 71 - somewhere in that range, and that we were also
sending diplomats (and ping pong players) back & forth constantly in
those
days.

One really can't dismiss the damage Carter has inflicted on the US when
he gave away the Canal, turned his back on our Middle East allies, and
allowed China to become today's predominant power. History will record
Carter as the worst President and ex-President in US history. And that's
saying something considering LBJ.

Stick with the subject of when diplomatic relations were restored with
China. That was the late 1960s. The book "Kissinger", by Walter Isaacson
would be helpful to you, if you can find someone to read it to you.