Shirley Temple Black
Shirley Temple Black - US Delegate- US Chief of Protocol
MCU United States Delegate to the United Nations (she might have been the US Chief of Protocol at this point) SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK talking about the United States finally politically recognizing the People's Republic of China as the official government of China and Taiwan is a part of the country. She says there's a different between recognizing a country and having full diplomatic relations with a country. It's basically, and it's probably going to surprise Americans that we haven't done it, but we have never recognized The People's Republic of China as the government of China and that Taiwan is a part of that China. There is a difference between recognizing a country and having full diplomatic relations with a country. First you should recognize the country. This is good in one way particularly because China, The People s Republic of China, does not have to comment on this recognition, but it reaffirms to them what we started to say in the Shanghai Communique of 1972, that we do recognize The People's Republic of China as the government of China.