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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcement, Carter took particular pains to assure the Nationalist Chinese and their U.S. supporters that the new ties to Peking "will not jeopardize the well-being of the people of Taiwan." The U.S.-Peking statement acknowledged that "there is but one China, and Taiwan is part of China" (a view shared by the Nationalists on Taiwan). It also specified that the U.S. recognizes Peking as the "sole legal government of China." But the statement went on to declare: "Within this context, the people of the U.S. will maintain cultural, commercial and other unofficial relations with the people of Taiwan...
...Moscow views China's opening to the West as potentially threatening and sees Brzezinski as the principal villain in a plot to set up an anti-Soviet alliance involving China, Japan and NATO. Brzezinski rejects that view: "A China that is increasingly modern, increasingly capable of dealing with its large number of people, increasingly a factor in stability both in its region and in the world as a whole-a China that is strong and secure-that is a China we would like to see. We do not see cooperation among China, the U.S., Western Europe and Japan...
...backstage levers it can, should let the world know that Iran is critical to our interests, should send the Shah a public message that the U.S. still cares, and that it still knows a few tricks in the big power game. It has always been Helms' view-one his detractors call simplistic-that we are only as helpless as we think...
...line with a dubious belief that is steadily gaining ground in Third World countries?that the world press should be tightly controlled?SWAPO leaders inside Namibia privately expressed a belief that the presence of foreign reporters gave them some protection during the campaign, though not too much. Within full view of one press group, police attacked and badly beat up a sign-carrying SWAPO demonstrator...
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