{"id":12691,"date":"2020-01-07T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/07\/britain-recognises-communist-government-of-china-1950"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:30:50","slug":"britain-recognises-communist-government-of-china-archive-7-january-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12691","title":{"rendered":"Britain recognises communist government of China &#8211; archive, 7 January 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>7 January 1950<\/strong>: Unconditional recognition of Mao Zedong\u2019s regime as the legitimate government of all China sees the withdrawal of support from Nationalists<\/p>\n<p><em>London, Friday<\/em><br \/>Britain\u2019s recognition of the Communist Central People\u2019s Government as the legitimate Government of all China was expressed in a Note handed to-day to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Zhou-Enlai\">Mr Chou En-lai<\/a>, the Foreign Minister, by the British Consul General in Peking. Last night Mr Hector McNeil, the Minister of State, informed the Chinese Ambassador in London, Dr Chung Tien-hsi, that the British Government had decided to take this step and was therefore withdrawing recognition from the Nationalists.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/from-the-archive-blog\/2019\/oct\/01\/mao-zedong-proclaims-establishment-of-peoples-republic-of-china-1949\">Mao Zedong proclaims the establishment of the People&#8217;s Republic of China &#8211; archive, October 1949<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/07\/britain-recognises-communist-government-of-china-1950\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 January 1950: Unconditional recognition of Mao Zedong\u2019s regime as the legitimate government of all China sees the withdrawal of support from NationalistsLondon, FridayBritain\u2019s recognition of the Communist Central People\u2019s Government as the legitimat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,662,695,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-communism","category-mao-zedong","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions\/12692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}