Connecting Washington and China: The Story of The Washington State China Relations Council

Foreword Joseph J. Borich President, Washington State China Relations Council As a relatively junior Foreign Service Officer working on the State Department’s China Desk in 1978, I found myself in an ideal “fly-on-the- wall” situation from which to observe and peripherally contribute to the chain of events that would lead to the full normalization of relations between the U.S. and China on January 1, 1979. By January 1980, I was in China helping to reopen the U.S. consulate general there af...