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Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) by James L. Peck; James Peck is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) about?

This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths, not merely to ""contain"" the People's Republic of China, but to isolate it from all diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties to other nations? Why, in other words, was American policy more hostile to China than to the Soviet Union, at least until President Nixon visited China in 1972? The answer, as set out here, lies in the fear of China's emergence as a power capable of challenging the new Asian order the United States sought to shape in the wake of World War II. To meet this threat, American policy-makers fashioned an ideology that was not simply or exclusively anticommunist, but one that aimed at creating an integrated, cooperative world capitalism under U.S. leadership - an ideology, in short, designed to outlive the Cold War. In building his argument, James Peck draws on a wide variety of little-known documents from the archives of the National Security Council and the CIA. He shows how American officials initially viewed China as a ""puppet"" of the Soviet Union, then as ""independent junior partner"" in a Sino-Soviet bloc, and fina

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Author

James L. Peck; James Peck

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558495364

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Language Learning