From the US State Department, the Office of the Historian: „Chinese Communists: Short range – no change. Long range – we do not want 800,000,000 living in angry isolation. We want contact … (want) China – cooperative member of international community ….“; Richard Nixon in January 1969. Anyone who follows the developments up to the admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations (1975) or the establishment of relations with the United States (1979) quickly realizes: Never in recent decades has there been so little direct interaction between China and the world.