Rebuilding the line begins...
At this time the new Leader of the National Party of Australia was Doug Anthony who also held the position of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade.
USA President Richard Nixon had visited China in February 1972. This renewed the long absent diplomatic ties. Nationalist interests were centered in Taiwan. Relations with Communist China slowly began to thaw.
Peking was known as Beijing within China from 1958 and then later world wide in 1979 when the Pinyin method of conveying Mandarin was adopted as the international standard.
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