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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  US Embassy Opens in Nine Elms, London

  Embassy of the United States, Nine Elms, London, United KingdomUS Department of State

  

  Starts 01/16/2018CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better8.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the $1bn US embassy in London opened its doors to the public for the first time on 16 January" 2018.

  The US opened its $1BN embassy in London's Nine Elms, a 12-storey glass-cube fortress replacing the historic Grosvenor Square site the US had occupied since 1785.

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• Geopolitics09/21/2026@PoliticsDesk

  The United States and China Establish Diplomatic Relations

  Embassy of the United States, Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang, Beijing, ChinaUS Department of State

  

  Starts 01/01/1979CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins82% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 82%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better47.8 years agoThe Office of the Historian states that "the Joint Communiqué stated that the United States would begin official diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China on January 1, 1979, and that the two countries would open Embassies on March 1". The agreement itself was announced on 15 December 1978.^[1]

  From 1 January 1979 Washington recognised the People's Republic as the sole legal government of China and withdrew recognition from Taipei, ending thirty years in which the United States had treated the Republic of China on Taiwan as the government of all China.

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• Geopolitics09/21/2026@PoliticsDesk

  The United States and China Issue the Shanghai Communiqué

  Jinjiang Hotel, Maoming South Road, Shanghai, ChinaUS Department of State

  

  Starts 02/27/1972CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins87% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 87%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better54.6 years agoForeign Relations of the United States prints the joint statement under the dateline "Shanghai, February 27, 1972". It is often dated 28 February, the day it reached readers in the United States and the visit's last day; this pin follows the document's own dateline.^[1]

  At the end of Nixon's visit the two governments published a joint statement setting out, separately, what each believed about Taiwan. Washington said it 'acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain that there is but one China' — the sentence US policy has rested on ever since.

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