Historical Record of Chinese Americans | The 1946 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of China
On November 4, 1946 (Year 35 of the Republic of China), the Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China sent Wang Shijie, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, and Wang Huacheng, Director of the Treaty Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, to meet with Leighton Stuart, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of China, and Robert Smyth, Special Commissioner and Consul General of the United States of America at Tianjin. The men met in a conference room on the third floor of the Nanjing National Executive Yuan to sign the Treaty of Friendship, Commence and Navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of China, commonly known as the “Sino-American Treaty of Friendship, Commence and Navigation” or “Sino-American Commerce Treaty“