BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Monday provided its deep condolences over the dying of Jimmy Carter, saying the previous U.S. president was the “driving drive” behind the institution of diplomatic ties between each international locations greater than 40 years in the past.
Carter died at his residence in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday on the age of 100. Throughout his 1977-1981 tenure, the U.S. authorities established formal relations with China, constructing on the groundwork laid by former President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger earlier within the Nineteen Seventies.
“China expresses its deep condolences on the passing of former United States President Jimmy Carter,” stated Mao Ning, spokesperson on the Chinese language overseas ministry.
“Former President Carter was the driving drive behind the institution of diplomatic relations between China and the US, and made vital contributions to the event of China-United States relations and the pleasant exchanges and cooperation between the 2 international locations,” Mao stated at an everyday information convention.
The choice by Carter’s (NYSE:) administration to acknowledge in 1979 Beijing’s place that there’s however one China and Taiwan is a part of China, and to sever formal ties with Taiwan, helped chart a brand new course in ties.
“His historic contribution to the normalisation and growth of China-U.S. relations will all the time be remembered by the Chinese language individuals,” Xie Feng, the Chinese language ambassador to the US, wrote in a put up on X.
