The idea to create up a committee to better inform Western Europe on the existence, politics and goals of Nationalist China arose during the various trips OM made to East-Asia in preparation for his book "Zweikampf um das Gelbe Reich: Wer überlebt in Ostasien (Wien, München, Zürich : Molden, 1968). In October 1967 he was received by General Tschiang Kai Schek in his quality of president of the "Europäische Föderalistische Partei Österreichs (EFP)". Through the chief of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of China to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, ambassador Schobern Jü , OM contacted in 1969 the Director General of the Government Information Office of the Republic of China J. Wei. J. Wei agreed to create a sort of propaganda committee in Western Europe and was willing to contribute financially. As a follow-up to a trip to Taiwan in early 1970, a Sino-European Co-operation Committee was founded in January 1971 with OM acting as chairman. Its main points of work were to be publicistic activities, such as writing and organising for the publication of newspaper articles, translating, reproducing and distributing books and pamphlets, contact journalists and writers, organise lecture tours, TV and Radio broadcasts and finance and organise trips to Taiwan for selected personalities. In August 1971 a secretariat in Vienna was established and the Committee for Chinese-European Co-operation (as it was then called), took up work to "divulgate impartial information in Europe about China and try to gain free Europeans as potentially important friends of the Republic of China". It had close collaboration with M. Yeh from the "Frei-China Informationsdienst" in Bonn. In 1972 its budget amounted to ca. 270.000 US $. In October 1974, when J. Wei dismissed as director general of the Information Office of the Republic of China, the Committee had to end its activities with effect on 01/01/1975.

The sub-fonds consists notably of correspondence, but includes also activity reports, minutes of meetings and printed material pertaining to the antecedents of the Committee, its activities and its dismission in 1974.