that leaves no doubt there is no "one China-one Taiwan." This is a soluble problem -- much easier than many other problems we have solved before.
Vice Premier Teng: But it won't do if you establish a liaison office in Taiwan, or for that matter a consulate.
Secretary Kissinger: I still believe this is a problem to which we can find a solution. I see the Ambassador Huang Chen has a very proprietary interest in the concept of a liaison office. He is the head of the only liaison office in the world which is headed by a Chinese Ambassador.
Huang Chen: My understanding about the nature of a liaison office is according to the ideas which Chairman Mao gave -- the nature of a liaison office.
Secretary Kissinger: I repeat, I believe we can find a solution to the first problem. Although we are not now in a detailed consultation. I believe we can find a solution to it.
The second question: We do not wish to participate in any way in the process of reintegration, or in the process of realization of reintegration.
The third problem is the one I have put to you: How we can avoid the impression that we have simply jettisoned people with whom we have been associated without giving -- as in the passage you read to me, how we can have a period of time to give this process a chance to work.
Namely, that diplomatic relations can be established before the process of reintegration is completed -- how this can be expressed in our agreement. This is the serious question.
It seems to me we have two roads we can take, and we are prepared to take either.
One road is that we, the United States, proceed unilaterally to reduce its standing on Taiwan, the way we have been doing. We will do this by withdrawing troops. And at the appropriate time before 1976 reducing the seniority of our diplomatic representation.
The other is that we begin a negotiation on the three points which we have discussed here. I do not believe our differences need be insurmountable.
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