The World - News from Dec. 21, 1986
Chinese and American officials inaugurated the first U.S.-supplied satellite station to be sold to a Communist nation. The $10-million facility is the result of an agreement signed in 1979 between the Jimmy Carter Administration and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. From two U.S. satellites, the Peking station will be able to receive data and pictures covering about 80% of China’s territory, parts of the Soviet Union, Japan, Taiwan and the Sino-Vietnamese border.
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