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  1. The People's Republic of China (PRC, commonly known as China) was established in 1949 and was not recognized by the United Nations (UN) as the legitimate government of China until 1971.

  2. Jul 29, 2020 · First, the current trajectory of US-China relations does not necessarily furnish a post hoc invalidation of the US opening. According to one of America’s most esteemed observers of China, the Asia Society’s Orville Schell, “the alternative in 1972 was an ongoing Cold War, perhaps even a hot war. Engagement was a chance worth taking and ...

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  4. This strategy aimed to encourage a split between the two communist allies of the PRC and the Soviet Union. It was successful, because such a Sino-Soviet split did occur, becoming evident in around 1960 and worsening thereafter. Rapprochement: 1971-1979. China and the United States began to move closer to one another in the 1970s.

  5. AFP/Getty Images. In the early months of 1949, it became increasingly clear that Mao Zedong ' Communists would win the Chinese civil war. This presented U.S. President Harry S Truman with an unappetizing set of choices.

  6. Apr 23, 2021 · In 1950, the PLA launched a series of amphibious operations, most notably resulting in the capture of Hainan island in the South China Sea. However, a landing in Kinmen was bloodily repulsed by ...

  7. Apr 7, 2021 · Credit: Chi Wang. Few people have experienced the ups and down of China-U.S. relations as closely, and for as long, as Dr. Chi Wang. Wang came to the United States from China in 1949, just before ...

  8. Sep 25, 2015 · He “taught a lesson” to Vietnam in 1978 and to Chinese students in 1989. In the end, China’s realists had decisively beaten America’s realists in the China-U.S. relationship. We now live with the consequences of Nixon’s “week that changed the world.”. President Obama has a unique opportunity to break the historic mold.