Secretary Kissinger: On one trip I brought a doctor along who was very skeptical of it and after he saw it he was very impressed.
Vice Premier Teng: It goes as far back as about two hundred years after Christ. During the time of the three kingdoms. It was during that time people were able to have an operation with acupuncture.
Secretary Kissinger: It is interesting to reflect how it could have been invented. Because as I understand it, to this day nobody understands the theory, why it works, just that it works.
Vice Premier Teng: I think mainly it was through practice.
Secretary Kissinger: Who go the first idea to stick a needle into somebody?
Vice Premier Teng: It was combined with the use of herb medicine.
Secretary Kissinger: Who would have thought if you stick a needle into somebody it would help him? No other civilization thought about that.
Vice Premier Teng: Shall we come back to our subject? We will listen to the Doctor. All right?
Secretary Kissinger: Let me discuss the subject of normalization. I understand that Mr. Habib has already had a talk on the bilateral relations.
I am confident that our side can keep multiplying the complexities as long as your side can. It is something we are very good at.
Let me speak about the normalization problem.
When we met the first time, in our first two meetings in 1971 we discussed completing the process during the second term of President Nixon.
We said that we would reduce our military forces on Taiwan, and we repeated that in the Shanghai Communique. We said we would not support any two Chinas solution, or a one China-one Taiwan solution, or any variation.
And we would not encourage other countries to pursue such a policy.
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