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Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations

1979 agreement between the United States and China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations on January 1, 1979 was announced on December 15, 1978, which established official relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China.

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“Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations” enters the record as 1979 agreement between the United States and China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Joint, Communiqué and Establishment can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Joint, Communiqué and Establishment.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.