Dates of establishment of Diplomatic relations with the People 's Republic of China - wikipedia Dates of establishment of Diplomatic relations with the People 's Republic of China Main article : Foreign relations of the People 's Republic of China Since its founding in 1949, the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) has had a diplomatic tug - of - war with its rival in Taiwan, the Republic of China ( ROC ). Throughout the Cold War, both governments claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all China and allowed countries to recognize either one or the other. Until the 1970s, most Western countries recognized the ROC while the communist bloc and third world countries generally recognized the PRC. This gradually shifted and today only 19 UN member states recognize the ROC while the PRC is recognized by the United Nations and the majority ( 175 ) of sovereign states around the world and Palestine. Both the ROC and the PRC maintain the requirement of recognizing its view of the One - China policy to establish or maintain diplomatic relations. Countries of the world indicating decade diplomatic relations commenced with the PRC : 1949 / 1950s ( dark red ), 1960s ( red ), 1970s ( orange ), 1980s ( beige ) and 1990s / 2000s ( yellow ). Countries not recognised by or not recognising the PRC are in grey. The PRC itself is in black. Contents 1 Recognition of the PRC before it was seated at the UN 1.1 1949 1.2 1950s 1.3 1960s 1.4 1970s 2 Recognition of the PRC after it was seated at the UN 2.1 1970s 2.2 1980s 2.3 1990s 2.4 2000s 2.5 2010s 3 See also 4 Notes and references 5 External links Recognition of the PRC before it was seated at the UN 1949 The PRC was established on 1 October 1949, when the Chinese Civil War was still underway, and the seat of Government of the Republic of China was not relocated to Taipei until December 1949. All the countries that recognized the new PRC government in 1949 were communist states. Country Date Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( now Russian Federation ) 2 October 1949 People 's Republic of Bulgaria ( now Republic of Bulgaria ) 4 October 1949 Romanian People 's Republic ( now Romania ) 5 October 1949 Hungarian People 's Republic ( now Hungary ) 6 October 1949 Democratic People 's Republic of Korea ( North Korea ) 6 October 1949 Czechoslovak Socialist Republic ( now Czech Republic ) 6 October 1949 Polish People 's Republic ( now Republic of Poland ) 7 October 1949 Mongolian People 's Republic ( now Mongolia ) 16 October 1949 German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) 27 October 1949 People 's Republic of Albania ( now Republic of Albania ) 23 November 1949 1950s Country Date India ( now Republic of India ) 1 January 1950 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ( request refused by the PRC ) 6 January 1950 Swiss Confederation ( first western country to establish diplomatic relations ) 17 January 1950 Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) ( now Socialist Republic of Vietnam ) 18 January 1950 Republic of Indonesia 13 April 1950 Kingdom of Sweden 9 May 1950 Kingdom of Denmark 11 May 1950 Union of Burma ( now Republic of the Union of Myanmar ) 8 June 1950 Principality of Liechtenstein 14 September 1950 Republic of Finland 28 October 1950 Pakistan ( now Islamic Republic of Pakistan ) 21 May 1951 Kingdom of Norway 5 October 1954 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2 January 1955 Kingdom of Afghanistan ( now Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ) 20 January 1955 Kingdom of Nepal ( now Nepal ) 1 August 1955 Republic of Egypt ( now Arab Republic of Egypt ) 30 May 1956 Syrian Republic ( now Syrian Arab Republic ) 1 August 1956 Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen ( North Yemen ) 24 September 1956 Ceylon ( now the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ) 7 February 1957 Kingdom of Cambodia 19 July 1958 Iraqi Republic ( now Republic of Iraq ) 25 August 1958 Kingdom of Morocco 1 November 1958 Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic ( now People 's Democratic Republic of Algeria ) 20 December 1958 Republic of the Sudan 4 February 1959 Republic of Guinea 4 October 1959 1960s Country Date Republic of Ghana 5 July 1960 Republic of Cuba 28 September 1960 Republic of Mali 25 October 1960 Somali Republic ( now Federal Republic of Somalia ) 14 December 1960 Republic of the Congo ( Léopoldville ) ( now Democratic Republic of the Congo ) 20 February 1961 Kingdom of Laos ( now Lao People 's Democratic Republic ) 25 April 1961 Republic of Tanganyika 9 December 1961 Republic of Uganda 18 October 1962 Sultanate of Zanzibar 11 December 1963 Republic of Kenya 14 December 1963 Kingdom of Burundi 21 December 1963 Tunisian Republic 10 January 1964 French Republic 27 January 1964 Republic of the Congo ( Brazzaville ) 22 February 1964 Central African Republic 29 September 1964 Republic of Zambia 29 October 1964 Republic of Dahomey ( now Republic of Benin ) 12 November 1964 Islamic Republic of Mauritania 19 July 1965 People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen ) 31 January 1968 Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam 14 June 1969 1970s Country Date Canada 13 October 1970 Republic of Equatorial Guinea 15 October 1970 Italian Republic 6 November 1970 Ethiopian Empire ( now Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia ) 24 November 1970 Republic of Chile 15 December 1970 Federal Republic of Nigeria 10 February 1971 State of Kuwait 22 March 1971 Republic of Cameroon 26 March 1971 Republic of San Marino 6 May 1971 Republic of Austria 28 May 1971 Republic of Sierra Leone 29 July 1971 Republic of Turkey 4 August 1971 Imperial State of Iran ( now Islamic Republic of Iran ) 16 August 1971 Recognition of the PRC after it was seated at the UN The Republic of China, which had occupied China 's seat at the United Nations since 1945, was effectively expelled on 25 October 1971. Its seat was taken over by the People 's Republic of China, and the migration of relations to the PRC soon followed among members of the Western Bloc, except for the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Italy, which had previously established diplomatic relations. 1970s Country Date Kingdom of Belgium 25 October 1971 Republic of Peru 2 November 1971 Republic of Lebanon 9 November 1971 Republic of Rwanda 12 November 1971 Republic of Senegal 7 December 1971 Iceland 8 December 1971 Republic of Cyprus 14 December 1971 State of Malta ( now Republic of Malta ) 31 January 1972 United Mexican States 14 February 1972 Argentine Republic 19 February 1972 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 13 March 1972 Mauritius ( now Republic of Mauritius ) 15 April 1972 Kingdom of the Netherlands 18 May 1972 Kingdom of Greece ( now Hellenic Republic ) 5 June 1972 Cooperative Republic of Guyana 27 June 1972 Togolese Republic 19 September 1972 Japan 29 September 1972 Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) ( now Germany ) 11 October 1972 Republic of Maldives 14 October 1972 Democratic Republic of Madagascar ( now Republic of Madagascar ) 6 November 1972 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 16 November 1972 Jamaica 21 November 1972 Republic of Chad 28 November 1972 Commonwealth of Australia 21 December 1972 New Zealand 22 December 1972 Francoist Spain ( now Kingdom of Spain ) 9 March 1973 Republic of Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) 15 September 1973 Republic of Guinea - Bissau 15 March 1974 Gabonese Republic 20 April 1974 Malaysia 31 May 1974 Republic of Trinidad and Tobago 20 June 1974 Republic of Venezuela 28 June 1974 Republic of Niger 20 July 1974 Federative Republic of Brazil 15 August 1974 Republic of the Gambia 14 December 1974 Republic of Botswana 6 January 1975 Republic of the Philippines 9 June 1975 People 's Republic of Mozambique 25 June 1975 Kingdom of Thailand 1 July 1975 Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe 12 July 1975 People 's Republic of Bangladesh 4 October 1975 Dominion of Fiji 5 November 1975 Independent State of Western Samoa ( now Independent State of Samoa ) 6 November 1975 Union of the Comoros 13 November 1975 Republic of Cape Verde 25 April 1976 Republic of Suriname 28 May 1976 Republic of Seychelles 30 June 1976 Independent State of Papua New Guinea 12 October 1976 Republic of Liberia 17 February 1977 Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 7 April 1977 Barbados 30 May 1977 Sultanate of Oman 25 May 1978 Great Socialist People 's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ( now Libya ) 9 August 1978 United States of America 1 January 1979 Republic of Djibouti 8 January 1979 Portuguese Republic 8 February 1979 Ireland 22 June 1979 1980s Country Date Republic of Ecuador 2 January 1980 Republic of Colombia 7 February 1980 Republic of Zimbabwe 18 April 1980 Republic of Kiribati 25 June 1980 Republic of Vanuatu 26 March 1982 Antigua and Barbuda 1 January 1983 People 's Republic of Angola ( now Republic of Angola ) 12 January 1983 Republic of Côte d'Ivoire 2 March 1983 Kingdom of Lesotho 30 April 1983 United Arab Emirates 1 November 1984 Republic of Bolivia 9 July 1985 Grenada 1 October 1985 Republic of Nicaragua 7 December 1985 Belize 6 February 1987 Eastern Republic of Uruguay 3 February 1988 State of Qatar 9 July 1988 State of Palestine 20 November 1988 State of Bahrain ( now Kingdom of Bahrain ) 18 April 1989 Federated States of Micronesia 11 September 1989 1990s Country Date Republic of Namibia 22 March 1990 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 21 July 1990 Republic of Singapore 3 October 1990 Republic of the Marshall Islands 16 November 1990 Republic of Estonia 11 September 1991 Republic of Latvia 12 September 1991 Republic of Lithuania 14 September 1991 Nation of Brunei 30 September 1991 Republic of Uzbekistan 2 January 1992 Republic of Kazakhstan 3 January 1992 Republic of Tajikistan 4 January 1992 Ukraine 4 January 1992 Kyrgyz Republic 5 January 1992 Turkmenistan 6 January 1992 Republic of Belarus 20 January 1992 State of Israel 24 January 1992 Republic of Moldova 30 January 1992 Republic of Azerbaijan 2 April 1992 Republic of Armenia 6 April 1992 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( now the Republic of Serbia ) Republic of Slovenia 12 May 1992 Republic of Croatia 13 May 1992 Republic of Georgia 9 June 1992 Republic of Korea ( South Korea ) 24 August 1992 State of Eritrea 24 May 1993 Republic of Macedonia 12 October 1993 Principality of Andorra 29 June 1994 Principality of Monaco 16 January 1995 Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( now Bosnia and Herzegovina ) 3 April 1995 Commonwealth of the Bahamas 23 May 1997 Cook Islands 25 July 1997 Saint Lucia 1 September 1997 Republic of South Africa 1 January 1998 Kingdom of Tonga 2 November 1998 2000s Country Date Democratic Republic of Timor - Leste 20 May 2002 Republic of Nauru 21 July 2002 Commonwealth of Dominica 31 March 2004 Republic of Montenegro 6 July 2006 Republic of Costa Rica 1 June 2007 Niue 12 December 2007 Republic of Malawi 28 December 2007 2010s Country Date Republic of South Sudan 9 July 2011 Republic of The Gambia 17 March 2016 Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe 26 December 2016 Republic of Panama 13 June 2017 See also PRC Foreign relations of the People 's Republic of China ROC Foreign relations of the Republic of China Timeline of diplomatic relations of the Republic of China Notes and references Jump up ^ Succeeded by Russia Jump up ^ Succeeded by the Czech Republic. Diplomatic relations with the Slovak Republic were established on 1 January 1993, mutually agreed to trace the date of establishment of diplomatic relations back to 6 October 1949. Jump up ^ Succeeded by the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990. ^ Jump up to : On 6 January 1950, the United Kingdom recognized the PRC and requested the exchange of ambassadors, but this was refused. The UK and The Netherlands established diplomatic relations at chargé d'affaires level with the PRC on 17 June 1954 and 19 November 1954 respectively. The PRC government does not regard the semi-diplomatic relations at chargé d'affaires level as formal diplomatic ties. The UK does. The PRC consented to the exchange of ambassadors with the UK on 13 March 1972 and with The Netherlands on 18 May 1972. See Sino - British relations for further details. Jump up ^ `` Britain Recognizes Chinese Communists : Note delivered in Peking ''. The Times. London. 7 January 1950. p. 6. ISSN 0140 - 0460. Jump up ^ Bilateral relations between Switzerland and China ( page visited on 19 August 2014 ). Jump up ^ Official diplomatic telegram from Switzerland, 17 January 1950, Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland ( page visited on 12 January 2017 ). ^ Jump up to : Serbia attempted to succeed but all other former Yugoslav Republics deferred the attempt, and no consensus was reached in the first period. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia est. 1992 - 02 - 28 was not granted successorship and was placed under international sanctions. In 2001 an Agreement on Succession Issues was signed and reached validity in 2004, by the provisions of that Agreement FRY is not the successor of SFRY. Serbia and Montenegro succeeded the United Nations seat of the FRY ( joined the UN as a new member on 2000 - 11 - 01 ) `` Succession '' of recognition by Serbia, successor state of Serbia and Montenegro is due to international law inadmissible. Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on the former Yugoslavia Opinion No. 10 ( Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Serbia and Montenegro ). In this decision, the Commission ruled that the FRY ( Serbia and Montenegro ) could not legally be considered a continuation of the former SFRY, but was rather a new state. Thus the European Community ( and the UN ) should not automatically recognize the FRY, but apply to it the same criteria applied to the recognition of the other post-SFRY states. ^ Jump up to : `` Diplomatic Ties Between China and African Countries ''. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. Retrieved 22 March 2015. ^ Jump up to : Succeeded by the Republic of Yemen. Date of establishment of diplomatic relations was set back to 24 September 1956. Jump up ^ `` Bilateral Relations between the People 's Republic of China and the Republic of Congo ( Kin ) ''. Note also that the Kinshasa - side 's state was officially named `` Republic of Congo '' at the time. Jump up ^ Tanganyika merged with Zanzibar from 26 April 1964. Jump up ^ Zanzibar merged into mainland Tanganyika on 26 April 1964. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 13 October 1971 after Burundi unilaterally severed relations on 29 January 1965. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 29 January 1998. CAR resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 8 July 1991. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 29 December 1972. Dahomey resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 12 April 1966. Jump up ^ Succeeded by Vietnam on 2 July 1976. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were raised to ambassadorial level on 15 July 1991. Jump up ^ Senegal resumed diplomatic relations with the ROC on 6 January 1996. Ties with the PRC were severed from 9 January 1996, until 25 October 2005, when ties were resumed. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 6 August 2006. Diplomatic relations were severed on 15 August 1997 after Chad resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 12 August 1997. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were severed on 4 February 1994. Burkina Faso resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 2 February 1994. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 13 April 1998. Guinea Bissau recognized the ROC on 26 May 1990. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 19 August 1996. PRC suspended diplomatic relations on 19 July 1992 after Niger resumed ties with the ROC on 30 June 1992. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 17 March 2016. Diplomatic relations were severed by PRC on 25 July 1995. Gambia resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 13 July 1995. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 26 December 2016. Diplomatic relations were severed by PRC on 12 July 1997. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 10 August 1993. Liberia resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 9 October 1989. Diplomatic relations with the PRC has been severed since 9 September 1997 because the Liberian Government 's recognition of a `` Two Chinas '' Policy. However, the PRC and Liberia normalized their relations on 11 October 2003. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were severed on 29 November 2003. Kiribati recognized the ROC on 7 November 2003. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 12 January 1994. Lesotho resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 5 April 1990. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were restored on 20 January 2005. Grenada recognized the ROC on 19 July 1989. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were severed on 9 November 1990. Nicaragua resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 6 November 1990. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were severed on 23 October 1989. Belize recognized the ROC on 11 October 1989. Jump up ^ Relations by PLO from 22 March 1965. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were severed on 11 December 1998. Marshall Islands recognized the ROC on 20 November 1998. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were raised to ambassadorial level on 6 February 2006. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were severed on 5 May 2007. St. Lucia resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 30 April 2007. Jump up ^ Diplomatic relations were severed on 31 May 2005. Nauru resumed diplomatic ties with the ROC on 14 May 2005. Jump up ^ `` China and Gambia Resume Diplomatic Relations ''. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People 's Republic of China. Retrieved 13 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` China and Sao Tome and Principe Resume Diplomatic Relations ''. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People 's Republic of China. Retrieved 13 July 2017. Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40256499 External links Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People 's Republic of China ( English Version ) Library of Congress. A Country Study : China Foreign relations of China Bilateral relations Africa Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea - Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Americas Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Cuba Ecuador Grenada Jamaica Mexico Panama Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Asia Afghanistan Armenia Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia East Timor India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Pakistan Palestine Philippines Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand United Arab Emirates Vietnam Yemen Europe Albania Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City Oceania Australia Fiji Kiribati Micronesia New Zealand Niue Papua New Guinea Samoa Tonga Vanuatu Multilateral relations Bangladesh -- China -- India -- Myanmar Forum for Regional Cooperation BIMSTEC Africa Arab League BRICS Caribbean China -- Japan -- South Korea European Union Latin America China and the United Nations Oceania Third World Arctic policy of China China and the Antarctic Diplomacy Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Minister ) Diplomatic missions of China / in China Stadium diplomacy Panda diplomacy Theater diplomacy Nine - Dash Line String of Pearls Belt and Road Initiative Confucius Institute Treaties China portal International relations portal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dates_of_establishment_of_diplomatic_relations_with_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China&oldid=802187288 '' Categories : Foreign relations of China Cross-Strait relations Political timelines Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from December 2014 Talk Contents About Wikipedia 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 24 September 2017, at 15 : 11. About Wikipedia

Question: when was the people's republic of china recognized
Answer: 1949