Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered in China [Video]

Former U.S. 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.The diplomatic switch in 1979 led to profound changes in U.S.-China relations in the following decades – and its implications are still being felt today as tensions flare across the Taiwan Strait.During the height of the Cold War, the Carter administration held months of secret negotiations with Chinese officials to normalize relations, which had been estranged since the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949.For decades, Washington had recognized the Republic of China in Taipei as the sole legal government of China, after the Kuomintang was defeated by the Communists in the civil war and fled from the Chinese mainland to the island of Taiwan.A rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China began during …