A food safety factory shutdown has Americans hunting for baby formula. Readying themselves for a covid-19 lockdown, Chinese in Beijing emptied store shelves. Emerging from lockdown, some in Shanghai are visiting well-provisioned markets. U.S.-China agricultural trade is booming, but many are still being left hungry. Food security, sustainability and safety remain issues.
Documents - Contemporary China
Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China and Japan (Treaty of Taipei) 1952
April 28, 1952
Signed at Taipei, 28 April 1952
Entered into force, 5 August 1952, by the exchange of the instruments of ratification at Taipei
Mao Zedong's "Order to the Chinese People's Volunteers," 1950
October 1, 1950
Mao Zedong's "Order to the Chinese People's Volunteers" October 1950.
Conversation between the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin and China's Mao Zedong, 1949
December 16, 1949
Conversation between Stalin and Mao, Moscow, 16 December 1949
The Chinese People Have Stood Up! 1949
September 21, 1949
Opening address by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Acheson, Statement on China, 1949
August 5, 1949
Secretary of State Dean Acheson's view of China in August 1949.
Anson Burlingame, Speech in New York, June 23, 1868
December 13, 1901
Burlingame headed the Chinese government's delegation to the United States.
Xi Jinping, Report at 2017 19th Party Congress, October 18, 2017
Secure a Decisive Victory in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects and Strive for the Great Success of Socialism with Ch
Xi Jinping, World Economic Forum, January 17, 2017
Xi Jinping, Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and State President, spoke at the Davos economic forum.
PRC State Council, China's Military Strategy in 2015, May 26, 2015
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