| ID | 115194 |
| Title Proper | China's new thinking on alliances |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Zhang, Feng |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In December 1949, Mao Zedong, paramount leader of the newly founded People's Republic of China, travelled to Moscow to negotiate a military alliance with the Soviet Union. Within barely two decades, however, not only had the alliance collapsed, but the two former allies had become bitter ideological and military adversaries. Strategic exigencies compelled the Chinese leadership to seek rapprochement with the United States, producing a quasi-alliance between the two erstwhile enemies after 1972. In January 1979, during his visit to Washington, Deng Xiaoping sought to nudge the United States toward developing a de facto, if informal, alliance with China in order to secure American support for China's impending invasion of Vietnam. During the last decade of the Cold War, China and the United States also maintained a degree of strategic cooperation against the Soviet Union. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 54, No.5; Oct-Nov 2012: p.129-148 |
| Journal Source | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 54, No.5; Oct-Nov 2012: p.129-148 |
| Key Words | United States ; Soviet Union ; Cold War ; China ; Deng Xiaoping ; Chinese Leadership ; Alliance Politics ; Asia - Pacific Region |