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On 4 January 1950, two days before Britain formally accorded de jure recognition to the People’s Republic, the head of the British permanent delegation at the UN, Sir Alexander Cadogan, wrote in his diary, ‘I saw a repetition of a telegram to Delhi, from which it appeared we recognised Communist China on the 6th. I think the FO might have given me this information direct’. Not only was Cadogan not directly informed of the date of the recognition, two days after it had happened, he noted, ‘A bag after lunch, but nothing of great interest and particularly no guidance about China’. 1
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000“Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation (New York: Norton, 1969) p. 148.
Samuel Kim, China, the United Nations and World Order (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979) pp. 92–93.
For an account of the evolution of the PRC’s attitude towards the UN see B. S. Weng, ‘Communist China’s Changing Attitude Towards the UN’, International Organization, XX, 4 August 1966.
For an account of Dong’s activity during his trip to the US, see Hu and Ha, Biography of Dong Biwu, [Dong Biwu Zhuangji] (Hubie: People’s Publication, 1985) pp. 200–3.
Zhou Gengseng, International Law, [Gou Ji Fa.], Vol. 2 (Beijing: Commerce Press, 1981) p. 726.
James C. Hsiung, Law and Policy in China’s Foreign Relations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1972) pp. 89–90.
Wu Xiu-quan, Eight Years in the Foreign Ministry [Zai waijiaobu bainian de jingli] (Beijing: World Knowledge Press, 1983), p. 38, p. 52.
See Chapter 3; for a specific study of the experience of the Dutch see Ko Swan Sik’s ‘The Establishment of Diplomatic Relations and the Scope of Diplomatic Immunity: The Dutch Experience with China’ in J. A. Cohen (ed.), China’s Practice of International Law: Some Case Studies (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972).
B. S. J. Weng, Peking’s UN Policy: Continuity and Change (New York: Praeger, 1972) p. 225.
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Tang, J.TH. (1992). Chinese Representation in the United Nations. In: Britain’s Encounter with Revolutionary China, 1949–54. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22349-7_6
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