The History of China's Relations With the United States

In 1973, David Rockefeller wrote an op-ed in the New York Times praising Mao Zedong's command and control system. In 1882 Chester Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers. The act led to a period as angry whites tried to drive out existing Chinese populations from places around them. At least 28 people were dead when white miners in Sweetwater County, Wyoming killed at least 34 Chinese workers after they got mad about job competition. It took 68 years for China to accept formal diplomatic relationships with the U.S. After that, things didn't get better.