President carter worked to ease tensions with china by a. establishing full diplomatic relations. b. limiting international trade. c. agreeing to stop communism. d. limiting us production of nuclear weapons.

The answer is A. Establishing full diplomatic relations

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Historical context / explanation:

On December 15, 1978, after months of secret talks, the United States and the People’s Republic of China announced that they would recognize each other and establish official diplomatic relations with one another, effective January 1, 1979.  In doing so, the United States also acknowledged the government of the People’s Republic of China as the legal government of China, and withdrew its support for the claim that Taiwan (the Republic of China) had continued to make about its legitimacy over against the communist government that had been in place in mainland China since 1949.

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the united states government was initially hostile to the soviet leaders for taking russia out of world war i and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. although the united states embarked on a famine relief program in the soviet union in the early 1920s and american businessmen established commercial ties there during the period of the new economic policy (1921–29), the two countries did not establish diplomatic relations until 1933. by that time, the totalitarian nature of joseph stalin's regime presented an insurmountable obstacle to friendly relations with the west. although world war ii brought the two countries into alliance, based on the common aim of defeating nazi germany, the soviet union's aggressive, antidemocratic policy toward eastern europe had created tensions even before the war ended.

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