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Tsou, one of the country's senior and most widely respected China
scholars, has for more than a generation been producing timely and
deeply informed essays on Chinese politics as it develops. Eight of
these (from a wide variety of sources) are gathered here with a
substantial new introduction. Tsou considers events not simply from
the point of view of a widely read political scientist (even
political philosopher) and a concerned Chinese, but also in the
light of history, the dynamics of Marxism-Leninism, individual
personalities, and humane realism.--Charles W. Hayford, Library
Journal
This book, which offers the work of a group of distinguished
contributors, is designed to clarify the bearing of the arms
control issue on the Sino-Soviet dispute and to suggest future
policy directions for the United States. Arms control and security
issues have been at the heart of much of Russian-Chinese
disagreement since the opening of the rift in the 1950's. This
book, which offers the work of a group of distinguished
contributors, is designed to clarify the bearing of the arms
control issue on the Sino-Soviet dispute and to suggest future
policy directions for the United States. Specifically, the
contributors seek to illuminate the security problems facing the
United States and to examine the prospects for arms control as they
are affected by conflict within the Communist world. Sino-Soviet
Relations and Arms Control begins with the observation that the
Soviet Union and Communist China use disarmament talk as a way of
pointing out issues of major importance in their dispute, of
competing for support within the third world and the Communist
bloc, and of expressing genuine disagreement over the fundamental
causes of the Sino-Soviet rift. The first section of the book deals
with the impact of the Sino-Soviet dispute on the arms control
policies of the Soviet Union, China, and the United States. The
authors argue that arms control is possible without China, that the
Chinese are unlikely to be interested in arms control agreements in
the near future, and that arms control could be of paramount
importance to relations among the three countries. Part II of the
book is a historical exploration of the interrelation between
specific arms control measures and the Sino-Soviet dispute. The
authors give the most detailed account yet available of Sino-Soviet
nuclear relations between 1957 and 1960 and document the extent to
which the quarrel has centered on military and security issues. The
role of the test ban in widening the Sino-Soviet rift is explored.
In Part III each author poses the same question: what would be the
nature of Sino-Soviet relations during a Washington-Peking crisis?
The first three chapters in this section answer the question from
the viewpoint of each country concerned; the last examines these
relations during the 1958 Quemoy crisis. Definitive information on
the events pertinent to the Sino-Soviet dispute of the 1950's and
early 1960's is rare; although it does not pretend to tell the
entire story, this book makes a significant contribution to the
body of knowledge on the evolution of the Sino-Soviet dispute. As a
learned, perceptive comment on the security problems created by the
dispute and on the possibilities for agreement that it presents,
Sino-Soviet Relations and Arms Control will have a wide audience
among political scientists, specialists in Sino-Soviet affairs, and
a lay public that recognizes the importance of this political
issue.
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