Radio: Listeners Want to Know About the History of Chinese-U.S. Relations, Duration: 3:00

Anson Burlingame & Burlingame Treaty of 1868

Radio: Listeners Want to Know About the History of Chinese-U.S. Relations, Duration: 3:00

4/11/2018

Radio

National Public Radio features a 3-minute interview with Cokie Roberts on April 11, 2018, on the history of U.S. and Chinese relations. Roberts provides her perspective on historical U.S.-Chinese trade relations leading up to the 1868 Burlington Treaty and the subsequent Chinese Exclusion Acts of the 1880s and 1890s. Other themes include: Chinese immigration and labor issues, and current U.S.-China relations.

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