ABSTRACT
On March 8, 1966, a series of hearings on China policy began before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Asian and Pacific Subcommittee. The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee had commissioned research projects on fifteen areas of US foreign policy. A call for change in America's China policy came in the form of the Cordon Report of November 1959. The efforts to change America's China policy seemed to be bearing fruit. Meanwhile, a group of 198 academics issued a statement calling for seating the People's Republic of China at the United Nations, ending America's total trade embargo on China, and exchanging diplomats with China, albeit without altering relations wifii Taiwan. The divide in America between pro-China and pro-Taiwan activists was to intensify after the onset of a new Washington-Beijing relationship. The People's Republic of China (PRC's) domestic situation once again became turbulent after Chairman Mao launched the 'Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution' on August 18, 1966.
