Dates of establishment of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China
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Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has had a diplomatic tug-of-war with its rival in Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

, the Republic of China
Republic of China
The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

 (ROC). Throughout the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

, both governments claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all China and allowed countries to recognize either one or the other. Until the 1970s, most Western countries recognized the Republic of China on Taiwan while the communist bloc and third world countries recognized the People's Republic of China. This gradually shifted and today only 23 states recognize the ROC
Foreign relations of the Republic of China
The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, is recognized by sovereign states. The course of the foreign relations of the ROC is dominated by maintaining diplomatic relations with these countries, as well as unofficial relations with other countries via its de facto embassies and...

 while the PRC is recognized by the United Nations
United Nations
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 and the majority (171) of sovereign states around the world and Palestine
State of Palestine
Palestine , officially declared as the State of Palestine , is a state that was proclaimed in exile in Algiers on 15 November 1988, when the Palestine Liberation Organization's National Council adopted the unilateral Palestinian Declaration of Independence...

. Both the KMT and the PRC maintain the requirement of recognizing its view of the One-China policy
One-China policy
The One-China policy refers to the policy or view that there is only one state called "China", despite the existence of two governments that claim to be "China"....

 to establish or maintain diplomatic relations.

1940s

The People's Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949. As the Chinese Civil War
Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang , the governing party of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China , for the control of China which eventually led to China's division into two Chinas, Republic of China and People's Republic of...

 was still underway (Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

 did not move the ROC government to Taiwan until December 1949), all the countries that recognized the new PRC government were Communist state
Communist state
A communist state is a state with a form of government characterized by single-party rule or dominant-party rule of a communist party and a professed allegiance to a Leninist or Marxist-Leninist communist ideology as the guiding principle of the state...

s.
Country Date
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics  October 3, 1949
People's Republic of Bulgaria October 4, 1949
People's Republic of Romania October 5, 1949
People's Republic of Hungary
People's Republic of Hungary
The People's Republic of Hungary or Hungarian People's Republic was the official state name of Hungary from 1949 to 1989 during its Communist period under the guidance of the Soviet Union. The state remained in existence until 1989 when opposition forces consolidated in forcing the regime to...

October 6, 1949
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) October 6, 1949
Czechoslovakia  October 6, 1949
Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 
October 6, 1949
Peoples Republic of Poland October 7, 1949
Mongolian People's Republic October 16, 1949
German Democratic Republic
German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

 (East Germany)
October 27, 1949
Peoples Republic of Albania November 23, 1949

1950s

Country Date
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland  January 6, 1950
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) January 18, 1950
Republic of India April 1, 1950
Republic of Indonesia April 13, 1950
Kingdom of Sweden May 9, 1950
Kingdom of Denmark
Kingdom of Denmark
The Kingdom of Denmark or the Danish Realm , is a constitutional monarchy and sovereign state consisting of Denmark proper in northern Europe and two autonomous constituent countries, the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic and Greenland in North America. Denmark is the hegemonial part, where the...

May 11, 1950
Union of Burma (now Myanmar) June 8, 1950
Swiss Confederation September 14, 1950
Principality of Liechtenstein September 14, 1950
Republic of Finland October 28, 1950
Dominion of Pakistan
Dominion of Pakistan
The Dominion of Pakistan was an independent federal Commonwealth realm in South Asia that was established in 1947 on the partition of British India into two sovereign dominions . The Dominion of Pakistan, which included modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh, was intended to be a homeland for the...

 (now the Islamic Republic of Pakistan)
May 21, 1951
Kingdom of Norway October 5, 1954
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...

 
January 2, 1955
Kingdom of Afghanistan
Kingdom of Afghanistan
The Kingdom of Afghanistan was an Islamic monarchy in south Central Asia established in 1926 as a successor state to the Emirate of Afghanistan, following the ascension to the throne by Amanullah Khan and his proclaming Afghanistan a kingdom in 1926, after 7 years on the throne...

January 20, 1955
Kingdom of Nepal August 1, 1955
Republic of Egypt May 30, 1956
Syrian Republic August 1, 1956
Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen , sometimes spelled Mutawakelite Kingdom of Yemen, also known as the Kingdom of Yemen or as North Yemen, was a country from 1918 to 1962 in the northern part of what is now Yemen...

 
(North Yemen)
September 24, 1956
Dominion of Ceylon
Dominion of Ceylon
The Dominion of Ceylon, known today as Sri Lanka, was a dominion, in the British Empire between 1948 and 1972. In 1948, British Ceylon was granted independence as the Dominion of Ceylon. In 1972, the Dominion of Ceylon became a republic within the Commonwealth, and its name was changed to Sri Lanka...

 (now Sri Lanka)
February 7, 1957
Kingdom of Cambodia July 19, 1958
Republic of Iraq August 25, 1958
Kingdom of Morocco November 1, 1958
Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

December 20, 1958
Republic of Sudan February 4, 1959
Republic of Guinea October 4, 1959

1960s

Country Date
Republic of Ghana July 5, 1960
Republic of Cuba September 28, 1960
Republic of Mali October 25, 1960
Somali Republic December 14, 1960
Democratic Republic of Congo  February 20, 1961
Kingdom of Laos
Kingdom of Laos
The Kingdom of Laos was a sovereign state from 1953 until December 1975, when Pathet Lao overthrew the government and created the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Given self-rule in 1949 as part of a federation with the rest of French Indochina, the 1953 Franco-Lao Treaty finally established a...

April 25, 1961
Republic of Uganda October 18, 1962
Republic of Kenya December 14, 1963
Kingdom of Burundi  December 21, 1963
Republic of Tunisia January 10, 1964
French Republic January 27, 1964
Republic of Congo February 22, 1964
United Republic of Tanzania  April 26, 1964
Central African Republic
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...

 
September 29, 1964
Republic of Zambia October 29, 1964
Republic of Dahomey
Republic of Dahomey
The Republic of Dahomey was established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Prior to attaining autonomy it had been French Dahomey, part of the French Union...

 (now known as Benin)
November 12, 1964
Islamic Republic of Mauritania July 19, 1965
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen — also referred to as South Yemen, Democratic Yemen or Yemen — was a socialist republic in the present-day southern and eastern Provinces of Yemen...

  (South Yemen)
January 31, 1968

1970s

Country Date
Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

October 13, 1970
Republic of Equatorial Guinea October 15, 1970
Italian Republic November 6, 1970
Empire of Ethiopia November 24, 1970
Republic of Chile December 15, 1970
Federal Republic of Nigeria February 10, 1971
State of Kuwait March 22, 1971
United Republic of Cameroon March 26, 1971
Most Serene Republic of San Marino  May 6, 1971
Republic of Austria May 28, 1971
Republic of Sierra Leone July 29, 1971
Republic of Turkey August 4, 1971
Empire of Iran August 16, 1971

Recognition of the PRC after its admission to the UN

The Republic of China, which had occupied China's seat at the United Nations
China and the United Nations
China's seat in the United Nations and membership of the United Nations Security Council was originally occupied by the Republic of China since October 24, 1945. During the Chinese Civil War, the Communist Party of China repelled the government of the ROC from Mainland China to the island of...

 since 1945, was expelled on October 25, 1971. Its seat was taken over by the People's Republic of China, and the migration of relations to the PRC soon followed among members of the Western Bloc
Western Bloc
The Western Bloc or Capitalist Bloc during the Cold War refers to the powers allied with the United States and NATO against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact...

, except for France, Canada which had previously established diplomatic relations.

1970s

Country Date
Kingdom of Belgium October 25, 1971
Republic of Peru November 2, 1971
Republic of Lebanon November 9, 1971
Republic of Rwanda November 12, 1971
Republic of Senegal  December 7, 1971
Republic of Iceland December 8, 1971
Republic of Cyprus December 14, 1972
Republic of Malta January 31, 1972
United Mexican States February 14, 1972
Argentine Republic February 19, 1972
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland March 13, 1972
Republic of Mauritius April 15, 1972
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Kingdom of the Netherlands is a sovereign state and constitutional monarchy with territory in Western Europe and in the Caribbean. The four parts of the Kingdom—Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten—are referred to as "countries", and participate on a basis of equality...

May 18, 1972
Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Greece
The Kingdom of Greece was a state established in 1832 in the Convention of London by the Great Powers...

June 5, 1972
Cooperative Republic of Guyana June 27, 1972
Togolese Republic September 19, 1972
Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

September 29, 1972
Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....


(West Germany)
October 11, 1972
Republic of Maldives October 14, 1972
Democratic Republic of Madagascar November 6, 1972
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg November 16, 1972
Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

November 21, 1972
Republic of Chad  November 28, 1972
Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

December 21, 1972
New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

December 22, 1972
Kingdom of Spain March 9, 1973
Republic of Upper Volta
Republic of Upper Volta
The Republic of Upper Volta was established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Before attaining autonomy it had been French Upper Volta and part of the French Union. On August 5, 1960 it attained full independence from France.Thomas Sankara came to power...

 (NowBurkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

)
September 15, 1973
Republic of Guinea Bissau  March 15, 1974
Republic of Gabon April 20, 1974
Malaysia May 31, 1974
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago June 20, 1974
Republic of Venezuela June 28, 1974
Republic of Niger  July 20, 1974
Federative Republic of Brazil August 15, 1974
Republic of Gambia December 14, 1974
Republic of Botswana January 6, 1975
Republic of Philippines June 9, 1975
People's Republic of Mozambique
People's Republic of Mozambique
The People's Republic of Mozambique , was a self-declared socialist state that lasted from June 25, 1975 through December 1, 1990, becoming the present day Republic of Mozambique.After gaining independence from Portugal in 1975, the People's Republic of Mozambique was established shortly...

June 25, 1975
Kingdom of Thailand July 1, 1975
Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe July 12, 1975
Peoples Republic of Bangladesh October 4, 1975
Republic of Fiji November 5, 1975
Western Samoa November 6, 1975
State of Comoros
Comoros
The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar...

November 13, 1975
Republic of Cape Verde April 25, 1976
Republic of Suriname May 28, 1976
Republic of Seychelles June 30, 1976
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

October 12, 1976
Republic of Liberia  February 17, 1977
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan April 7, 1977
Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

May 30, 1977
Sultanate of Oman May 25, 1978
Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya August 9, 1978
United States of America January 1, 1979
Republic of Djibouti January 8, 1979
Republic of Portugal February 8, 1979
Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

June 22, 1979

1980s

Country Date
Republic of Ecuador January 2, 1980
Republic of Colombia February 7, 1980
Republic of Zimbabwe April 18, 1980
Republic of Kiribati June 25, 1980
Republic of Vanuatu March 26, 1982
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...

January 1, 1983
People's Republic of Angola
People's Republic of Angola
The People's Republic of Angola was a self-declared socialist state that was established in 1975 after it was granted independence from Portugal, akin to the situation in Mozambique. The newly-founded nation enjoyed friendly relations with the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the People's Republic of...

January 12, 1983
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire March 2, 1983
Kingdom of Lesotho  April 30, 1983
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

November 1, 1984
Republic of Bolivia July 9, 1985
Grenada
Grenada
Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...

 
October 1, 1985
Republic of Nicaragua December 7, 1985
Belize
Belize
Belize is a constitutional monarchy and the northernmost country in Central America. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Even though Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official...

February 6, 1987
Oriental Republic of Uruguay February 3, 1988
State of Qatar July 9, 1988
State of Palestine
State of Palestine
Palestine , officially declared as the State of Palestine , is a state that was proclaimed in exile in Algiers on 15 November 1988, when the Palestine Liberation Organization's National Council adopted the unilateral Palestinian Declaration of Independence...

November 20, 1988
State of Bahrain April 18, 1989
Federated States of Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia or FSM is an independent, sovereign island nation, made up of four states from west to east: Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae. It comprises approximately 607 islands with c...

September 11, 1989

1990s

Country Date
Republic of Namibia March 22, 1990
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia July 21, 1990
Republic of Singapore October 3, 1990
Republic of the Marshall Islands November 16, 1990
Republic of Estonia September 11, 1991
Republic of Latvia September 12, 1991
Republic of Lithuania September 14, 1991
State of Brunei Darussalam September 30, 1991
Republic of Uzbekistan January 2, 1992
Republic of Kazakhstan January 3, 1992
Republic of Tajikistan January 4, 1992
Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

January 4, 1992
Kyrgyz Republic January 5, 1992
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

January 6, 1992
Republic of Belarus January 20, 1992
State of Israel January 24, 1992
Republic of Moldova January 30, 1992
Republic of Azerbaijan April 2, 1992
Republic of Armenia April 6, 1992
Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

 (as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
April 28, 1992
Republic of Georgia June 9, 1992
Republic of Slovenia May 12, 1992
Republic of Croatia May 13, 1992
Republic of Korea (South Korea) August 24, 1992
State of Eritrea May 24, 1993
Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

October 12, 1993
Principality of Andorra June 29, 1994
Principality of Monaco  January 16, 1995
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was the direct main predecessor to the modern-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

April 3, 1995
Commonwealth of the Bahamas May 23, 1997
Cook Islands
Cook Islands
The Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand...

July 25, 1997
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...

September 1, 1997
Republic of South Africa January 1, 1998
Kingdom of Tonga November 2, 1998

2000s

Country Date
Democratic Republic of East Timor May 20, 2002
Republic of Nauru July 21, 2002
Commonwealth of Dominica March 31, 2004
Republic of Montenegro July 6, 2006
Republic of Costa Rica June 1, 2007
Niue
Niue
Niue , is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the "Rock of Polynesia", and inhabitants of the island call it "the Rock" for short. Niue is northeast of New Zealand in a triangle between Tonga to the southwest, the Samoas to the northwest, and the Cook Islands to...

December 12, 2007
Republic of Malawi December 28, 2007

2010s

Country Date
South Sudan
South Sudan
South Sudan , officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country located in the Sahel region of northeastern Africa. It is also part of the North Africa UN sub-region. Its current capital is Juba, which is also its largest city; the capital city is planned to be moved to the more...

July 9, 2011

See also

PRC
  • Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China
    Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China
    The foreign relations of the People's Republic of China guides the way in which it interacts with foreign nations. As a great power and emerging superpower, China's foreign policy and strategic thinking is highly influential. China officially states it "unswervingly pursues an independent foreign...


ROC
  • Foreign relations of the Republic of China
    Foreign relations of the Republic of China
    The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, is recognized by sovereign states. The course of the foreign relations of the ROC is dominated by maintaining diplomatic relations with these countries, as well as unofficial relations with other countries via its de facto embassies and...

  • Timeline of diplomatic relations of the Republic of China
    Timeline of diplomatic relations of the Republic of China
    Several States have deceased their diplomatic recognition of the Republic of China during the last 60 years - since the founding of the People's Republic of China.-Timeline:...


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