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International Rivalry and Secret Diplomacy in East Asia, 1896-1950 (Paperback)
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International Rivalry and Secret Diplomacy in East Asia, 1896-1950 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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East Asia was a major focus of struggle between the United States
and the Soviet Union during the Cold War of 1945 to 1991, with
multiple "hot" and "cold" conflicts in China, Korea, and Vietnam.
The struggle for predominance in East Asia, however, largely
predated the Cold War, as this book shows, with many examples of
the United States and Russia/the Soviet Union working to exercise
and increase control in the region. The book focuses on secret
treaties, 26 of them, signed from the mid-1890s through 1950, when
secret agreements between China and the USSR, including several
concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway, gave Russia greater control
over Manchuria and Outer Mongolia. One of the most important was
negotiated in 1945, when Stalin signed the Sino-Soviet Friendship
Treaty with Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists, that
included a secret protocol granting the Soviet Navy sea control
over the Manchurian littorals. This secret protocol excluded the US
Navy from landing Nationalist troops at the major Manchurian ports,
thereby guaranteeing the Chinese Communist victory in Northeast
China; from Manchuria, the Chinese Communists quickly spread south
to take all of Mainland China. To a large degree, therefore, this
formerly undiscussed secret diplomacy set the underlying conditions
for the Cold War in East Asia.
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