On this Day in Chinese History; 7 January

This day, 7 January, 1978, when Deng Xiaoping met with a delegation of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, he clearly proposed the possibility of China’s “two-handed” solution to the Taiwan issue, striving to use the right hand to achieve peaceful liberation, the so-called more powerful hand, but acknowledging too the possible use of the left hand; military means.