How the US and China first established diplomatic ties, on January 1, 1979

Cold War rivalries resulted in a lack of official contact between the US and China for decades. Leaders like Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter, and even countries such as Pakistan played a role in the long road to normalisation.

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