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A Fragile Relationship - The United States and China since 1972 (Paperback, New)
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"President Nixon's historic trip to China in February 1972 marked
the beginning of a new era in Sino-American relations. For the
first time since 1949, the two countries established high-level
official contacts and transformed their relationship from
confrontation to collaboration. Over the subsequent twenty years,
however, U.S.-China relations have experienced repeated cycles of
progress, stalemate, and crisis, with the events in Tiananmen
Square in June 1989 the most recent and disruptive example.
Paradoxically, although relations between the two countries are
vastly more extensive today than they were twenty years ago, they
remain highly fragile. In this eagerly awaited book, China expert
Harry Harding offers the first comprehensive look at Sino-American
relations from 1972 to the present. He traces the evolution of
U.S.-China relations, and assesses American policy toward Peking in
the post- Tiananmen era. Harding analyzes the changing contexts for
the Sino-American relationship, particularly the rapidly evolving
international environment, changes in American economic and
political life, and the dramatic domestic developments in both
China and Taiwan. He discusses the principal substantive issues in
U.S.-China relations, including the way in which the two countries
have addressed their differences over Taiwan and human rights, and
how they have approached the blend of common and competitive
interests in their economic and strategic relationships. He also
addresses the shifting political base for Sino-American relations
within each country, including the development of each society's
perceptions of the other, and the emergence and dissolution of
rival political coalitions supporting and opposing the
relationship. Harding concludes that a return to the Sino-American
strategic alignment of the 1970s, or even to the economic
partnership of the 1980s, is less likely in the 1990s than
continued tension or even confrontation over such issues as trade,
human rights, and the proliferation of advanced weapons. But he
also explains the importance of maintaining normal working
relations with China in order to promote security in East Asia,
protect the global environment, and encourage an open, more
realistic and stable relationship with China. Selected by Choice as
an Outstanding Book of 1992 Award winner for excellence in
publishing from the Association of American Publishers "
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