China: Quest for Stability and Development

Archive Report

U.S.-China Relations

Reagan Visit to Advance Bilateral Trade

Ronald reagan's coming trip to China will be the third by an American president since 1972, pointing up the importance this country places on achieving a good working relationship with its erstwhile enemy.1 In this election year, Reagan will use the highly publicized event to underscore his most widely acclaimed foreign policy success to date, improved diplomatic and trade relations with the world's most populous nation. In the view of this most ideologically anti-communist administration in recent memory, communist China offers a unique opportunity both to counter Soviet expansionism and open up a vast export market for U.S. goods.

Reagan's trip follows Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang's 10-day visit to the United States in January. Zhao's was the first such ...

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