POL SCI 143A Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: One-China Policy, Table Tennis, Nuclear Blackmail
1 Nov 2017
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In america: group is always more important than individual. Chinese dream: they have a just and successful society individual at center. American dream: anyone can come to us, work hard and succeed. 1947-49: zhou and mao express hope in sino-american friendship. 1950: mao says we lean to one side (ie. side of soviet union) Us lead the anti-communist cold war! intervened in many places. To china, moscow offers aid and support. 1949-71: us was more anti-chinese than anti-soviet. China, though weaker, was ideologically more uncompromising: war of liberation. Dittmer thinks china was jealous of us-soviet d tente . Nixon meets with mao sino-us d tente begins. Nixon does a 170 (not quite 180 since republican party was anti-comm) Us supports china against soviet nuclear blackmail. Reaffirmed in 1979 when us formally recognized china. Neither side accepts ideological legitimacy of the other, yet cooperation is quite smooth. To some degree, sino-us collaboration tends to facilitate soviet-us d tente.
