AN EXTRAORDINARY RELATIONSHIP

摘要

On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the signing of the Shanghai Communique by China and the United States, Beijing Review North America Bureau reporter Chen Wen intervie wed sever al exp e r ts on their views of the significance of the docu-ment for China-U.S . relations and the future of the relation ship between the two countries. They are: 1. Henry Kissinger , then assistant to the U.S . president who visited Beijing secretly in 1971 and then accompanied President Richard Nixon during his groundbreaking tour to China in 1972; 2. Jeffrey A. Bader, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution; 3. Minxin Pei , Senior Associate and Director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.; and 4. Jerome A. Cohen, an expert on the Chinese legal system and professor of law at the New York University School of Law,who witnessed the history of the normalization of China-U.S .relations from the late 1960s to the 1970s.Excerpts of the interviews follow: