Economic Cold War : America's embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1949-1963
"Why would one country impose economic sanctions against another in pursuit of foreign policy objectives? How effective is the use of economic weapons in attaining such objectives? Economic Cold War, by Shu Guang Zhang, aims to answer these questions. The author examines how and why the United States and its allies instituted economic sanctions against the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, and how the embargo affected Chinese domestic policy and the Sino-Soviet Alliance. This study, based on recently declassified documents in the United States, Great Britain, China, and Russia, is unusual in that it looks at both sides of "the China embargo.""--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2001
Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford University Press, Washington, D.C., Stanford, Calif., ©2001
xvi, 375 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780804739306, 0804739307
46617170
Fostering the China embargo, 1949-1953
Standing up to build a new China, September 1949-June 1950
Countering the imperialist embargo, July 1950-September 1953
Holding the sanctions line, 1953-1955
Fending off prolonged western sanctions, October 1953-December 1957
The disintegration of multilateral sanctions, 1956-1959
The collapse of Sino-Soviet economic cooperation, 1957-1960
An inevitable Beijing-Moscow split and Washington's response, 1960-1963
Conclusion
Appendix: Statistics on Chinese trade, 1950-1980