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Speech by Former U.S. President Carter at Welcoming Banquet

29 June 1987

Permit me first to thank our Chinese hosts for your extraordinary arrangements and hospitality. My wife and I, as well as our entire party, are deeply grateful. In the short period of six days, we have gone a longer distance than the Long March.

We have acquired a keen sense of the diversity, dynamism, and progress of China under your policies of your reform and opening to the outside world.

More than eight years have passed since Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and I joined hands to establish full diplomatic relations between these two great nations. Our hope and vision was to forge a Sino-American relationship which would contribute to world peace and the welfare of our two peoples. I personally looked upon the forging of firm Sino-American ties as a historically significant experiment.

We faced the question in 1978, as to some extend we still do today: Can two nations as different as ours --- yours one of the oldest civilization on earth, mine one of the youngest; yours a socialist state and mine committed to capitalism; yours a developing country and mine a developed one --- can two nations surmount and indeed draw upon these differences to build an unprecedented and distinctive relationship in world affair?