1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
1908- 1988
East Asia
North America
1949-
Western Europe
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July 30, 1955
Dong Yueqian instructs Zhang Wentian to form a "special supervisory group" for the Sino-American ambassadorial talks.
April 15, 1961
Edward Ochab insists that Poland "is friendly toward China."
May 31, 1962
Wang Bingnan reports extensively on social, political, religious, and economic conditions within Poland, as well as Poland's foreign relalations with the US, the Soviet Union, and China.
April 1, 1964
Wang Bingnan and Władysław Gomułka discuss the Sino-Soviet split.
July 31, 1955
Several instructions from the PRC Foreign Ministry on how to handle the negotiations as well as two attachments regarding the text of speech for the first meeting of the Sino-American talks and the issue of news release during the talks
July 17, 1955
Zhou Enlai's instructions regarding the Sino-US talks
September 9, 1955
The Foreign Ministry's instructions regarding revising the draft, the preferred words, and the exchange of text and the information to release to the US after reaching an agreement.
August 20, 1955
US Representative Johnson invited Wang to a private dinner at Johnson’s residence, stating that both would bring only interpreters and should not leak the information to reporters. Wang asked for instruction from the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
August 21, 1955
The Foreign Ministry agreed Wang to accept the invite from Johnson and asked for more details about the dinner arrangement.
Wang drafted certain issues that might be touched upon during the private dinner with Johnson and asked for permission from the Foreign Ministry. The US might: (1) Explain the current situation and wish to improve Sino-US relations; (2) Continue searching China’s bottom-line with soft methods; (3) Want to test China’s attitude on improving Sino-US relations; (4) Test China’s opinion on the second agenda.