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Forgotten Vanguard - Informal Diplomacy and the Rise of United States-China Trade, 1972-1980 (Hardcover)
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Forgotten Vanguard - Informal Diplomacy and the Rise of United States-China Trade, 1972-1980 (Hardcover)
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The trading relationship between the United States and China,
though now robust, was a recent and hardly inevitable development.
Political animosity stemming from the Korean War and America's
subsequent strategic embargo of China broke off economic and
cultural ties. Following two decades of China's international
isolation, as the United States sought to realign the geopolitical
order in the 1970s, Washington began to engineer a restoration of
its relationship with China. Diplomatic historians have carefully
documented the formal and governmental intrigues of Nixon,
Kissinger, Mao, and Zhou Enlai. As this book shows, a vigorous
reconstruction of bilateral ties was unfolding simultaneously at
the level of informal diplomacy, especially in the realm of
US-China trade. Central to understanding the renewal of bilateral
commerce is the National Council for United States-China Trade, an
organization that, although nongovernmental, was established in
1973 with Washington's encouragement and oversight. The Council
organized major American corporations not only to engage in
commercial exchanges with China, but also to function as a
diplomatic backchannel between Washington and Beijing before the
two nations restored formal relations in 1979. Using the Council to
historicize the entangling of the American and Chinese economies,
Forgotten Vanguard not only reveals globalization's contingent path
but also exposes the hidden importance of informal trade diplomacy
in building the modern US-China relationship. This book will appeal
to those with an interest in Cold War history, international
relations, and the history of American diplomacy, with particular
emphases on informal diplomacy and the modern history of the
US-China economic relationship.
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