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In order to open up China's international situation and reduce strategic pressure, Deng Xiaoping first chose to strengthen relations with the United States. Just when the US side thought that China was asking for something from itself and was planning to ask for a high price in its relations with Taiwan, the Attitude of the Chinese side cooled down.
Deng Xiaoping said to US Secretary of State Vance who came to China to negotiate the establishment of diplomatic relations: "We Chinese able to resolve the Taiwan issue, and I advise american friends not to worry about it for us." ”
This immediately lost the biggest leverage for the United States, and as the Soviet Union accelerated its deployment of nuclear weapons, then-US President Carter began to realize that the United States also needed Chinese cooperation in international affairs.
In fact, Deng Xiaoping had clear considerations and arrangements for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, but all this can only be based on the premise that the United States respects China's sovereignty and reunification.
In December 1978, the United States almost hurriedly signed a communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations with Chinese representatives, followed by Comrade Xiaoping's visit to the United States, China launched a counterattack in self-defense against Vietnam, and the Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan, and a series of major international events seemed to occur as compactly as prearranged dramas.
Focusing on the issue of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, Deng Xiaoping keenly grasped the time node at which the Soviet Union and the United States were in difficulty at the diplomatic level and had their own needs, and sent troops to Vietnam with lightning speed to pacify southern Xinjiang.
On April 26, 1984, on the third day of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's visit to China, his foreign affairs assistant told him the breaking news: China has launched a local offensive against Vietnam in the border area!
This battle was fought both for Reagan and the Soviet Union, as well as for Margaret Thatcher. With the People's Liberation Army retaking the Liangshan region with lightning speed, the deadlocked Sino-British negotiations on Hong Kong soon made breakthrough progress.
On 19 December 1984, the Chinese and British governments issued the Joint Statement on the Hong Kong Question, which made it clear that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong on 1 July 1997.