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Reds and Nationalists Swap Artillery Fire
TAIPEI, Formosa, Mar. 4— Chinese Nationalist batteries on the Quemoy Islands silenced Communist guns yesterday in the heaviest artillery exchange in recent weeks of their vest pocket war, the Defense Ministry re- ported. Nationalists said the Reds started it. The Communists fired 50 shells—42 at Quemoy yester- day morning and 8 at Little Quemoy in the afternoon.
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Bandung Conference
China played an important role in the conference and strengthened its relations with other Asian nations. Having survived an assassination attempt on the way to the conference, Zhou Enlai used the platform to propose peaceful dialogue over the Taiwan Strait, casting the PRC as a responsible regional power seeking negotiation over confrontation — a direct diplomatic pivot following the weeks of artillery exchanges.
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PRC-US Ambassadorial Talks were a series of meetings between the ambassadors of People's Republic of China and the United States from 1954 to 1970 when there were no diplomatic relations between the two countries. The first was held in Geneva, Switzerland, August 1st, 1955, between Wang Bingnan, PRC ambassador to Poland and U. Alexis Johnson, US ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
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The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also known as the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). The PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China in an attempt to take them from the ROC, governed by the Kuomintang (KMT), and to probe the extent of American commitment to defend the Republic of China. Then U.S. secretary of state Christian Herter reportedly described it as the 'first serious nuclear' crisis of the era.
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