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As a young man he traveled to the United States and worked for a short time as an assistant scene painter in New York City 's Thalia Theater . The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency ( ACDA ) will cease to exist as an independent entity as of April 1 , 1999 . For those projects involving a current designated special case or special 404 ( f ) matter , the DE shall request that the RA make the final determination of the geographic jurisdictional scope of waters of the United States for purposes of section 404 or applicability of the exemptions under section 404 ( f ) . It is the policy of the United States to consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means , including by boycotts or embargoes , a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States ; to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character ; and to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security , or the social or economic system , of the people of Taiwan . " IN THE 1980s CHINA pursued an independent foreign policy , formally disavowing too close a relationship with either the United States or the Soviet Union .