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“The Chinese Connection” (May 1984) By Eddie Germano

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Title:	“The Chinese Connection” (May 1984) By Eddie Germano
Artist:	Eddie Germano (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
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“The Chinese Connection” (May 1984)
By Eddie Germano (1924 - )
14 x 18, ink and wash on paper

A native Bostonian, Germano became a full-time cartoonist in 1948, at age 24, after serving in WWII. Among other positions, he worked as the editorial and sports cartoonist for the Brockton Enterprise from 1963-1990.

On April 26, 1984, President Reagan arrived in China for a six-day diplomatic meeting with Chinese President Li Xiannian. The trip was the third time a US president had traveled to China since President Richard Nixon’s historic trip in 1972 (Gerald Ford visited in 1975).

The New York Times report reflects a shift in Reagan’s rhetoric about China that Germano seems to capture here.

Shifts His Language (Hendrick Smith, NYT, May 2, 1984)

Summing up the China trip, the President said that he was impressed by Chinese curiosity about this country and that he felt his talks with the Chinese leadership had raised Chinese-American relations to ''a new level of understanding.'' But he said the trip had ''not particularly'' changed his own thinking about China.

But in a speech to about 500 community leaders here [Fairbanks, Alaska], Mr. Reagan, who for many years had sharply attacked ''Red China'' as an implacable foe of the United States, dramatically shifted his language by asserting that the United States could get along ''with this so-called Communist China'' since it was not an expansionist power and since it wanted American investment. ''They are opening up now that American concerns can create branches of their own in China, in this so-called Communist China,'' he said, ''and they don't have to be in partnership with anyone and capitalism will be there in these plants.''

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