Steve Tsang (UK. Oxford University)

The Cold War's Odd Couple

The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the UK, 1950 - 1958

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Produktbeschreibung

The relationship between the USA and the People's Republic of China (PRC) was the defining factor in the Cold War in Asia - the potentially explosive conflict which, as seen in the Korean War, brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. The PRC had not become 'Titoist' as some hoped and remained firmly within the Soviet international orbit. But how did Great Britain and the Republic of China (ROC) fit into this potentially lethal global jigsaw? Steve Tsang has illuminated the history of a seemingly obscure corner of international relations and politics but which was, to contempories, at the heart of global survival. He has carried out extensive research in unique Chinese- and English-language sources, both official and private.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781350176294
• ISBN-10: 135017629X
• Artikelnr.: 58600916

Autorenporträt

Steve Tsang is Louis Cha Fellow and University Reader in Politics at St Antony's College, Oxford University. He served as Director of the Asian Studies Centre at Oxford from 1997 to 2003 and is the author of A Modern History of Hong Kong and Hong Kong: An Appointment with China, both published by I.B.Tauris.

Inhaltsangabe

Acronyms and Abbreviations
ii Preface
iii Introduction
x 1. In the Context of the Cold War
1 Dawn of a new age
1 The cold war in Asia
5 The UK's position
9 The ROC's place
14 China and the odd couple
18 2. The ROC's Policy
27 General foreign policy
27 Policy towards the United Kingdom
30 Apparatus for making policy and conducting relation
37 Survival in the cold war
55 3. British Policy
58 Britain's East Asian policy
58 Policy towards Taiwan
61 Apparatuses for policy making and conducting relations
74 From expediency to unintended partnership
81 4. One China or Two?
83 Solutions to Taiwan
84 Chinese representation at the UN
99 One China, two states
108 5. Peace and Security
111 A cause for war?
111 Origins of first Taiwan Strait crisis, 1954
55
115 Operation Oracle
121 Second Taiwan Strait crisis, 1958
139 A precarious peace?
148 6. Mutual Interest and Conflicts
152 Mutual interests
152 Conflicts over the closure of Chinese ports
155 Neutrality of Hong Kong
165 Conflicts In perspective
185 7. The Cold War's Odd Couple
187 The making of an unintended partnership
189 Notes
200 Bibliography
243 Index
259