AMERICAN BUSINESS AND NORMALIZATION OF US-CHINA COMMERCIAL RELATIONS, 1979–1980

Building a strategic alignment against the Soviet Union was in the late 1960s the driving force behind Sino-American rapprochement. In 1978 Cold War politics prompted the Carter administration to recognize the People’s Republic. In 1979—80 military and strategic cooperation dominated Sino-Amthcan re...

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Main Author: Kailai Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Economic & Business History Society 2005-06-01
Series:Essays in Economic and Business History
Online Access:https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/158
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description Building a strategic alignment against the Soviet Union was in the late 1960s the driving force behind Sino-American rapprochement. In 1978 Cold War politics prompted the Carter administration to recognize the People’s Republic. In 1979—80 military and strategic cooperation dominated Sino-Amthcan relations; economic and cultural ties were secondary. Yet growing trade and cultural exchanges were useful means for broadening the basis of the relationship and generating a perception of progress.
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title AMERICAN BUSINESS AND NORMALIZATION OF US-CHINA COMMERCIAL RELATIONS, 1979–1980
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title_fullStr AMERICAN BUSINESS AND NORMALIZATION OF US-CHINA COMMERCIAL RELATIONS, 1979–1980
title_full_unstemmed AMERICAN BUSINESS AND NORMALIZATION OF US-CHINA COMMERCIAL RELATIONS, 1979–1980
title_short AMERICAN BUSINESS AND NORMALIZATION OF US-CHINA COMMERCIAL RELATIONS, 1979–1980
title_sort american business and normalization of us china commercial relations 1979 1980
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