Diplomatic recognition was not a certainty when Carter came to office in 1977. “Jimmy Carter really was facing a lot of opposition” in China and the United States, said Brian P. Hilton, a historian of ...

Beijing called the late U.S. leader a promoter and decision-maker in the establishment of China-U.S. diplomatic ties.

One of Jimmy Carter’s biggest feats in the Oval Office was the establishment of relations between the U.S. and China, opening ...

On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, the man who unlocked China's economy. The first leader of Communist China ...

“Jimmy Carter realised very clearly that China was a major element in world politics and political economy and was engaging in liberal reform under Deng Xiaoping.” The president also took the ...

Chinese ambassador to the US, Xie Feng, added that Carter’s move to normalize relations with China was “one of the most correct decisions” he ever made: I would like to extend my sincere condolences ...

The Panama Canal Authority leader denied that China controls the waterway, warning President-elect Trump against ending the ...

These steps significantly boosted China’s economy and created jobs, with bilateral trade doubling within a year. Yet, how could Jimmy Carter – a president renowned for his moral compass ...

Jimmy Carter, who died last Sunday December 29 at ... The interview was to mark the 40th anniversary of US-China diplomatic ties, which began in January 1979. He was 94 when I interviewed him.

In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun ...

“Jimmy Carter really was facing a lot of opposition” in China and the United States, said Brian P. Hilton, a historian of Cold War diplomacy. “What Carter did was he took that basic idea of ...

On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, the man who unlocked China's economy. The first leader of Communist China to ...