A Brief History of US / China Relations 

Biden’s recent statement (following Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan last week) that the US would defend Taiwan against hostility by mainland China indisputably increased tensions between the world’s two largest economies and military powers. We now find ourselves watching our politicians discuss the possibility of war against not one, but two military behemoths.

Our diplomatic difficulties with China began in 1949 when we refused to recognize the newly formed People’s Republic of China. Things got steadily worse for two decades until China invited the US table tennis team to a surprise, all-expenses-paid trip to Beijing in 1971. The following year, President Nixon visited China and then issued the Shanghai Joint Communiqué that declared Taiwan part of China.

Since then, things have gone back and forth. (Diplomats have named it Ping Pong Diplomacy.) Today, relations between our two countries may be at an all-time low.

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And click here for an editorial about Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan by Patrick Buchanan.