Trump, Panama Canal and China
On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, the man who unlocked China's economy. The first leader of Communist China to visit the United States,
In 1994, Bill Clinton was in office in the midst of a standoff with North Korea over the communist country's nuclear program. The U.S. was floating the idea of sanctions – and even considered a preemptive strike on North Korea's nuclear facilities to destroy their capabilities.
BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Monday offered its deep condolences over the death of Jimmy Carter, saying the former U.S. president was the "driving force" behind the establishment of diplomatic ties between both countries more than 40 years ago.
When I arrived at the White House, there were Rosalynn and the president, the leader of the free world holding his bible. I climbed into the limousine, and we motorcaded to church.
Carter died on Sunday, nearly two years after he entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, his family announced. China expressed “deep condolences” to the U.S. “As U.S. president Jimmy Carter facilitated and oversaw the establishment of ...
U.S. relations is poised to influence Trump’s China policy across economic, military, and diplomatic dimensions.
"Jimmy Carter’s legacy is best measured in lives changed ... Trump also said, without evidence, China operates the canal. Mulino said Carter got important work done for Panama in an era when it wasn't easy. “His time in the White House marked complex ...
Trump’s fixation on Greenland is particularly odd, though not new. Back in 2018, he offered to buy it from Denmark, which controls the large, icy island as an autonomous territory. He was outraged when the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, turned him down, calling her “ nasty ” and canceling a state visit to Copenhagen.
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