The rapprochement between China and the United States as seen by their ambassadors

The rapprochement between China and the United States as seen by their ambassadors

At a time when diplomatic relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China are being re-established, the journalist interviews the Chinese and American ambassadors on the reasons for this rapprochement. Leonard WOODCOCK, the first American ambassador in the People’s Republic of China, admits that the motivations of the Vietnam war, to weaken the communist bloc to contain China, proved useless. The Sino-American rapprochement seems good for global stability, even if it means transferring advanced technologies and subsidies to China. CHAI Zemin, Chinese ambassador to the United States explains that the term "relaxation" is not appropriate, because the war has not disappeared from the planet. He cites as an example the Indochinese peninsula which is not at peace. The Vietnamese, supported by the USSR, launched a war of aggression against Cambodia.

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File : United States - China relations

Publication date : 1 March 1979