Isolating the enemy : diplomatic strategy in China and the United States, 1953-1956

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Title
"Isolating the enemy : diplomatic strategy in China and the United States, 1953-1956"
Statement of Responsibility
Tao Wang
Publisher
  • Columbia University Press
Publication Year
  • c2021
Book size
23 cm
Series Name / No
  • : [pbk.]

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Summary: "In the crucial moment after the Korean War, the United States and the People's Republic of China circled each other warily. They shifted between confrontation and conciliation, ratcheting up tension yet also embarking on peace initiatives. Tao Wang offers a new account of Sino-American relations in the mid-1950s that situates the two great powers in their international context. He reveals how both the United States and China adopted a policy of attempting to isolate their adversary and explores how Chinese and American leaders perceived and reacted to each other's strategies. Although the policy of the Eisenhower administration was to contain China, Washington often overestimated Chinese aggressiveness, worrying allies and neutral states. Sensitive to the differences within the Western camp, Chinese leaders sought to convince American allies to persuade the United States to back down. Wang analyzes diplomatic maneuvering over a peace settlement in Indochina, ..."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-308) and index

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