Jimmy Carter, the 39th and the longest-lived U.S. president, died at his home in Georgia on Sunday at the age of 100.
In China and Taiwan, the death of Carter, who established diplomatic relations with Beijing and severed formal ties between the United States and Taipei, was met with mixed reactions.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping extended “deep condolences” in a message to President Joe Biden, according to the state-controlled Xinhua news agency.
In a commentary, Xinhua praised the former U.S. president for his role in normalizing U.S.–China relations and his “consistent devotion to promoting mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples.” The mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) said Washington is now “in urgent need of political leaders like Carter,” whom it said had “the correct perception of China.”…