Jimmy Carter opens the USA to China | Chinese History

Mao Zedong was dead and Richard Nixon had resigned in disgrace and the USA and China were no closer to normalising relations. But now two new leaders were at the helm, Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter. Carter's Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, was unable to pull the strings and manage China's calls for ending relations with Taiwan with its SALT talks with the USSR. Instead, Zbigniew Brezinski went in and tried to broker a deal with Huang Hua. Would Jimmy Carter's new approach work?

In this series, Mr. Mitchell takes you through the history of Modern China from the 1940s up until the present day beginning with the Chinese Civil War and today covering Jimmy Carter and Deng Xiaoping beginning to normalise relations.

Regardless of how "into" history you'd consider yourself, this is amongst the most important educational topics in the world. As we look towards the 2020s, it seems more and more like the USA is going to be overtaken by China as the world's dominant superpower. With this being the case, we ought to understand who they are, what made them the way they are, and whether they really are the "boogeyman" of world politics. It's well worth a watch.

0:00-1:01 Context
1:01-2:08 China's demands
2:08-3:26 Carter's approach
3:26-5:43 US/Chinese negotiations
5:43-7:15 Deng visits Carter

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