Chopsticks Vintage Large "I Love Great America" "I Heart Great U.S.A." from 1946
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The product is a set of vintage chopsticks from 1946 featuring the phrases "I Love Great America"(in Chinese) "I Heart Great U.S.A."(in English)My father was an Air Force pilot stationed in Tokyo 1945 to 1949. They flew missions to China with diplomats and others as the US worked on an economic treaty. It was signed in 1946 generally the Chinese were excited. It's kind of interesting that the Chinese market was flooded with American products back then, a bit of a contrast to today.The Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America Republic of China was a bilateral treaty [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateral_treaty] signed by the United States [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States] and China [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%9349)] on November 4, 1946. It became effective on November 30, 1948, following the mutual exchange of ratifications, pursuant to Article XXX. It fulfilled the desires of both countries to establish such a treaty as previously expressed in Article XII of the Treaty for Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-American_New_Equal_Treaty]. The US received a large number of economic privileges from this agreement and Chinese businesses complained of unfair competition from US products which dominated the China market.
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