Hong Kong CNN —Former US President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, is remembered in China for bringing an end to decades of hostility and establishing diplomatic relations with Beijing – at the expense of Taiwan. On January 1, 1979, the US and the People’s Republic of China formally established diplomatic ties, opening embassies in the two countries’ respective capitals. “Deng asked me if China could send 5,000 students, and I answered that China could send 100,000,” Carter wrote. US President Jimmy Carter and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Washington DC, United States on January 30, 1979. In China, Carter remains a well-respected figure, despite the rocky relationship in recent years.

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