In the two decades prior to the restoration of the PRC's seat at the United Nations, China and the United States had maintained no diplomatic relations. That changed in 1972. In the history of China-U.S. relations, of all the issues that are of great, or even overriding and decisive, influence, first and foremost is the Taiwan question.
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