30 Years of China-US Relations

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Columns

Li Xing:
Be more sensitive to migrants' dilemma

Li Hong:
Export-driven road hits snag

Liu Shinan:
Teachers are not children's punching bags

Hong Liang:
Information is power for investors too

You Nuo:
A protracted war against recession

Former ambassador's wife recalls friendship with US

(Xinhuanet.com)
Updated: 2009-01-08 11:07

Ge Qiyun gives her Chinese calligraphy to the then-President-elect George Herbert Walker Bush (first from right) and his wife Barbara Bush in this undated photo. [Xinhua]

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Senior Chinese and US officials met December 4th and 5th, 2008 for the 5th Strategic Economic Dialogue.

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Launched in 2003, six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue involve China, DPRK, US, ROK, Japan and Russia.

Fifth China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue

Timeline Milestones

April 1971 - "Ping Pong diplomacy" kicks off when a U.S. table tennis team travels to China, thawing ties that had been frozen since People's Republic of China was founded in 1949.

Feb 1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon travels to China and meets Chairman Mao Zedong. The two countries issue the Shanghai Communique, laying out the "one China" policy.

Jan 1, 1979 - Beijing and Washington establish diplomatic relations. Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visits U.S. later in the month.

Hotlinks

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs