In order to ease tension in the Taiwan Straits area and seek ways of solving the dispute between the two countries, the Chinese Government started dialogues with the United States from the mid-1950s onwards.

• 为了缓和台湾海峡地区的紧张局势，探寻解决中美两国之间争端的途径，中国政府自五十年代中期起，既开始与美国对话。