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Jimmy Carter: Memorandum From the President on United States Relations With the People on TaiwanDECEMBER 30, 1978
Memorandum for All Departments and Agencies
Subject: Relations with the People on Taiwan
As President of the United States, I have constitutional responsibility for the conduct of the foreign relations of the nation. The United States has announced that on January 1, 1979, it is recognizing the government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and is terminating diplomatic relations with the Republic of China. The United States has also stated that, in the future, the American people will maintain commercial, cultural and other relations with the people of Taiwan without official government representation and without diplomatic relations. I am issuing this memorandum to facilitate maintaining those relations pending the enactment of legislation on the subject.
I therefore declare and direct that:
(A) Departments and agencies currently having authority to conduct or carry outprograms, transactions, or other relations with or relating to Taiwan are directed to conduct and carry out those programs, transactions, and relations beginning January 1, 1979, in accordance with such authority and, as appropriate, through the instrumentality referred to in paragraph D below.
(B) Existing international agreements and arrangements inforce between the United States and Taiwan shall continue in force and shall be performed and enforced by departments and agencies beginning January 1, 1979, in accordance with their terms and, as appropriate, through that instrumentality.
(c) In order to effectuate all of the provisions of this memorandum, whenever any law, regulation, or order of the United States refers to a foreign country, nation, state, government, or similar entity, departments and agencies shall construe those terms and apply those laws, regulations, or orders to include Taiwan.
(D) Inconducting and carrying out programs, transactions, and other relations with the people on Taiwan, interests of the people of the United States will be represented as appropriate by an unofficial instrumentality in corporate form, to be identified shortly.
(E) The above directives shall apply to and be carried out by all departments and agencies, except as I may otherwise determine.
I shall submit to the Congress a request for legislation relative to non-governmental relationships between the American people and the people on Taiwan.
This memorandum shall be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.
JIMMY CARTER
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:26 p.m., January 2, 1979]
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Hey Mike, sorry to go OT here, but did you catch this Ma doublespeak in the TT today?
ReplyDelete“After the DPP gained control of both the executive and legislative branches of
government, it has completely transformed into a fascist regime. As the party in
power, it has been persecuting the opposition and making the public foot its bills,”
Ma said.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2017/09/01/2003677564
The stupidity of the KMT knows no bounds. I don't think he even realizes what he said was exactly the way the KMT ran things here for the past 70 years. Its no wonder the KMT have become complete laughingstocks. They are so out of touch.