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...decade, Sino-American relations have been defined by the Shanghai Communiqué signed during President Richard Nixon's historic visit to Peking in 1972. In that document, the U.S. agreed that mainland China and the island republic of Taiwan, which is governed by the Nationalist Party that fled the mainland after its defeat by the Communists in 1949, constitute "one China." Implicit was the understanding that the U.S., while not severing its ties to Taiwan altogether, would scale them down progressively. In that spirit, the Carter Administration in 1979 closed the U.S. embassy in Taipei and established full diplomatic...
...several passionate kisses. That is why some bystanders witnessing the war of the Falklands find themselves almost charmed by its stately pace, its long preliminaries-the fleet steaming off from England as the Prime Minister quotes Queen Victoria; the weeks at sea as the foreign offices indulge in truculent communiqués and atavistic displays of national plumage. (The long interval between the patriotic eruption and the moment of actual contact also opens up room for negotiation.) A world apocalyptically armed has absorbed the notion that there will not be much safe territory in wars of the future...
Richard Nixon called it "the week that changed the world," and he was not exaggerating. On Feb. 28, 1972, at the close of the American President's historic trip to China, he and his host, Premier Chou Enlai, signed the Shanghai Communiqué calling for a renewal of relations between the U.S. and China, implacable enemies since the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. The agreement led to an immediate exchange of diplomats by the two nations that had fought so bitterly on the battlefields of the Korean War. Despite the problems that persist, particularly those concerning...
...would continue to supply the Taiwan government with F-5E supersonic fighters. The Chinese argue that the U.S. should set a deadline for ending all arms transfers to Taiwan, or at least should demonstrate that it is beginning to curtail its support for an island that the Shanghai Communiqué treated as "a part of China...
...exultant guerrillas quickly issued a communiqué claiming that they had destroyed 28 aircraft. A tight-lipped General José Guillermo Garcia, Defense Minister in the country's civilian-military government, gave figures that were much lower: "about eleven" aircraft and four of the helicopters that are so useful in fighting El Salvador's long-smoldering guerrilla war were destroyed. There was no doubt, however, that the insurgents had dealt the government a major setback. Said a U.S. military officer about the airport raid: "Disastrous...