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| In Normalizing Sino-US Relations,How did the Chinese Government Negotiate with the United States on the Taiwan Question? |
| 日期:2001-04-17 14:58 编辑: system 来源： |
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In order to ease tensions in the Taiwan Straits area and seek ways of solving the dispute between the two countries, the Chinese Government started dialogues with the United States from the mid-1950s onwards. The two countries held 136 sessions of talks on easing and removing tensions in the Taiwan Straits area at ambassadorial level from August 1955 to February 1970. However, no progress was made during this period on the key issue of easing and removing tensions in the Taiwan Straits area owing to the US policy of persisting in interfering in China's internal affairs.
It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s when the international situation had undergone changes and when New China had grown stronger that the US began to readjust its China policy and relations between the two countries started to thaw. In October 1971 the United Nations General Assembly adopted at its 26th general session Resolution 2758, restoring all lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations.
US President Richard Nixon visited China in February 1972 in the course of which the two countries issued a joint communique in Shanghai stating: "The US side declares: the Untied States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Straits maintain that there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position." The Shanghai communique paved the way for the normalization of Sino-US relations and defines basic principles for the settlement of the Taiwan question for China and the United States.
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