On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, the man who unlocked China's economy. The first leader of Communist China to visit the United States,

The Panama Canal Authority leader denied that China controls the waterway, warning President-elect Trump against ending the Neutrality Treaty.

BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Monday offered its deep condolences over the death of Jimmy Carter, saying the former U.S. president was the "driving force" behind the establishment of diplomatic ties between both countries more than 40 years ago.

When I arrived at the White House, there were Rosalynn and the president, the leader of the free world holding his bible. I climbed into the limousine, and we motorcaded to church.

Carter died on Sunday, nearly two years after he entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia, his family announced. China expressed “deep condolences” to the U.S. “As U.S. president Jimmy Carter facilitated and oversaw the establishment of ...

"Jimmy Carter’s legacy is best measured in lives changed ... Trump also said, without evidence, China operates the canal. Mulino said Carter got important work done for Panama in an era when it wasn't easy. “His time in the White House marked complex ...

Former U.S. 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 ...

Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, a move that remains a point of tension, though it moved China away from the Soviet Union.

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa. The African continent, a booming region with a population rivaling China’s that is set to double by 2050, is where Carter's legacy remains most evident.

The late president has been praised for placing human rights at the forefront of U.S. policy, but his Cold War maneuvering was marked by a familiar double standard.