Taiwan could be less hot-button issue in future ,Gates says in Beiging ,January 11, 2011. Gates who worked in the white house when President Richerd M. Nixon made his historic trip to China in 1972, said made the American policy clear to his Chinese counterparts ." First of all , we do have a one China policy , we do consider the policy to be based on the Three Joint Communiques and I always add- the Taiwan Relation Act ," he said. The three communiques werw singed in 1972, 1979 and 1982 . Taiwan Relation Act is a law and not a policy, Gates said. He stressed that the United States does not support independence for Taiwan .
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