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."

It appears you're the one on drugs.

That's your definition of when the serious dancing began? The piece of
paper? Not the 10 years' of work which began with Nixon & Kissinger?

Obfuscation, the refuge of a scoundrel.

--
Skipper