US President Jimmy Carter and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping are pictured in Washington DC, United States on January 30, 1979.
Mandatory Credit:	Gilbert UZAN/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images via CNN Newsource

US President Jimmy Carter and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping are pictured in Washington DC, United States on January 30, 1979.
Mandatory Credit: Gilbert UZAN/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images via CNN Newsource

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‘An old friend’: Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered in China for establishing diplomatic ties

Former US President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, is remembered in China for bringing an end to decades of hostility and establishing diplomatic relations with Beijing – at the expense of Taiwan.