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Haddad, John R. America's First Adventure in China: Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation (2013) covers 1784 to 1868. Isaacs, Harold R. Scratches on Our Minds: American Images of China and India (1958) online; Johnson, Kendall A. The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).
In 1904, a syndicate of American railroad magnates proposed (through a French spokesman) a Siberian–Alaskan railroad from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska through a tunnel under the Bering Strait and across northeastern Siberia to Irkutsk via Cape Dezhnev, Verkhnekolymsk, and Yakutsk (around 5,000 km [3,100 mi] of railroad to build, plus over 3,000 km [1,900 mi] in North America).
In 2006, there were 10 non-stop flights between the two countries, amounting to 2 million passenger trips per year. [4]Beginning in 2013, there were 28 non-stop routes (not including Hong Kong and Macau) operated by three major U.S. carriers: United, American, and Delta; and four Chinese carriers: Air China, China Eastern, China Southern, and Hainan Airlines.
The Siamese–American Treaty of 1833 called for free trade, except for export of rice and import of munitions of war. The Opium Wars break out between Western nations and China, resulting in the Chinese government being forced to open trade to foreign powers. Britain unilaterally adopted a policy of free trade and abolished the Corn Laws in ...
A U.S. demand that China shut its Houston consulate is the latest chapter in a dramatic worsening of ties between the world's two biggest economies over the last two years. Jan. 22: U.S. President ...
[179] [180] A letter to Piero Soderini, published c. 1505 and purportedly by Vespucci, claims that he first voyaged to the American mainland in 1497, a year before Columbus. [181] In 1507, a year after Columbus's death, [182] the New World was named "America" on a map by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. [183]
The project, nicknamed the "China-Russia-Canada-America" line, would be over 8,000 miles long and was first reported in China's state-run Beijing Times newspaper. The paper interviewed a railway ...
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