Anonymous ID: 4514cd March 1, 2019, 3:04 a.m. No.5446112   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6127

>>5446077

When you went to China in 1972, that led to huge transformations. One was that the position of Taiwan suddenly changed. Taiwan [had been] part of the United Nations. It was internationally recognized. It was a friend of America.

 

No, no. But that isn't the defining issue. It was a friend of America. The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.

 

You and President Nixon changed all that.

 

Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that have their own institutions. We did not change it in the sense that we said this has to end, but there was a U.N. vote that transferred the legitimacy of China from Taiwan to Beijing. Beijing was recognized as the government of all of China. Then, under President Carter, we followed what the U.N. had already done eight years earlier.

 

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