U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping of the People’s Republic of China on Jan. 29, 1979 in Washington, D.C., greet American schoolchildren who performed in Chinese the protest song that Deng Xiaoping sang three years earlier as he was being taunted by Chairman Mao’s cultural revolutionaries while being paraded through Tiananmen Square. (Photo: National Archives)
Andy Wulf One of my favorite episodes of cultural diplomacy occurred in 1979 when Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping of the People’s Republic of China visited the United States to see President Jimmy Carter. This first state visit by a Chinese leader followed the normalization of formal diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China.
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