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 TREATIES TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA Plenlpotentiarli. Pease and friend- ship. The United States of America and the Republic of China, desirous of strengthening the bond of peace and the ties of friendship which have happily long prevailed between the two countries by arrange- ments designed to promote friendly intercourse between their re- spective territories through provisions responsive to the spiritual, cultural, economic and commercial aspirations of the peoples thereof, have resolved to conclude a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, and for that purpose have appointed as their Plenipo- tentiaries, The President of the United States of America: Dr. J. Leighton Stuart, Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni- potentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of China, and Mr. Robert Lacy Sinyth, Special Commissioner and Consul General of the United States of America at Tientsin; and, The President of the National Government of the Republic of China: Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, and Dr. Wang Hua-cheng, Director of the Treaty Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China; Who, having communicated to each other their full powers found to be in due form, have agreed upon the following Articles: Aimc~i I 1. There shall be constant peace and firm and lasting friendship between the United States of America and the Republic of China. 1300 [63 STAT.

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