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Major events on Sino-American Relations・(2)
 1950-1978
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1950:
Mar. 1

・		 President Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency in Taipei.
1951:
Apr. 21

・		 The U.S. announced its assignment of the military assistance advisory group (MAAG) to Taiwan.
1953:
Feb. 3

・		 President Eisenhower announced the deneutralization of the Taiwan Strait.
1954:
Dec. 2

・		 The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty was signed in Washington.
1956:
Mar. 16

・		 U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles visited Taipei.
1958:
Oct. 23




・		 President Chiang and U.S. Secretary of State Dulles issued a joint communique reaffirming solidarity and stating that Kinmen and Matsu islands were closely related to the defense of Taiwan under present conditions.
1960:
June 18-19 President Eisenhower visited Taipei.
Dec. 1


・		 The first atomic reactor under U.S. assistance installed in the National Tsing Hua University at Hsinchu.
1961:
Mar. 14

・		 U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visited Taipei.
1963:
Sept. 1


・		 The Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development (CIECD) was inaugurated to replace the Council for U.S. Aid in Taipei.
1965:
Apr. 9

・		 The U.S. and China concluded in Taipei an accord to establish a Sino-American fund for economic and social development in Taiwan.
July 1
・		 The U.S. phased out economic aid to Taiwan.
1966:
Jan. 1

・		 U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey visited Taipei.
1969:
Aug. 1-2

・		 U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers visited Taipei.
1970:
Jan. 2 and
Aug. 26
・		 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew visited Taipei.
1971:
July 9 - 11

・		 President Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger and Premier Chou En-lai held talks in Peking.
July 14
・		 Memorandum  to President Nixon: Henry Kissinger: "My talks with Chou En-lai."
Oct. 20 - 25
・		 Henry Kissinger visited Peking to arrange the agenda and itinerary to Nixon's forthcoming trip to Communist China.
Oct. 25


・		 U.N. voted to admit Communist China, expel Nationalist delegates. Resolution 2758.  Roll call votes.
1972:
Feb. 20-27




・		 President Nixon arrived in mainland China for an eight-day visit, which he called a "journey for peace."  A joint communique issued in Shanghai pledged that both parties would work for a normalization of relations.
1973:
May 14


・		 Liaison offices were opened in Washington and Beijing. David K.E. Bruce was the first director in Beijing.
1974:
October 21

・		 George Bush was the head of Liaison Office in Beijing.
1976:
May 6
・		 Thomas S. Gates, Jr. entered on duty as Director of Liaison Office in Beijing.
Dec. 8

・		 American business leaders formed a U.S.-R.O.C. Economic Council in Chicago.
1978:
Dec. 15


・		 Joint communiques issued in Washington and Beijing announce establishment of US-PRC diplomatic relations and termination of US-ROC ties and Mutual Defense Treaty.
Dec. 22

・		 Sen. Barry Goldwater and 14 other legislators file suit in US District Court to prevent termination of ROC Mutual Defense Treaty.
Dec. 27-28


・		 US delegation, led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, confers in Taipei on future ROC-US relations.
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