China\'s Quest. The History of the Foreign Relations of the People\'s Republic of China - John Garver

340 { China’s Quest a June 1978 visit by Foreign Minister Huang Hua. The Iranian political context of Hua’s visit was, however, ...

Countering Soviet Encirclement } 341 in a direction favorable to China’s security. Mao laid out his thinking about Europe’s role ...

342 { China’s Quest Normalization of PRC-FRG relations occurred in October 1972 in the af- termath of China’s entry into the Uni ...

Countering Soviet Encirclement } 343 public opinion, cut West European defense budgets, and “heighten contradic- tions” within N ...

344 { China’s Quest Shortly after Schmidt’s visit, Strauss paid another visit to Beijing, where he enunciated views congruent wi ...

Countering Soviet Encirclement } 345 multidimensional, and substantial expenditure of national wealth and leader- ship attention ...

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ACT } II The Happy Interregnum, 1978–1989 ...

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349 13 } Opening to the Outside World Making the PRC a Prosperous and Powerful Socialist Country China’s foreign relations under ...

350 { China’s Quest has widened because the world has been developing with tremendous speed. Compared with developed countries, ...

Opening to the Outside World } 351 Under such conditions, the “fundamental contradiction” was not, as Mao had maintained, betwee ...

352 { China’s Quest mammoth inefficiency and waste. But investment in consumer goods and public infrastructure was starved to fe ...

Opening to the Outside World } 353 support and would, one way or another, “die.” Fear of counterrevolution haunted Mao throughou ...

354 { China’s Quest unit” (danwei) system that had controlled people’s housing, medical care, education, travel, and ration coup ...

Opening to the Outside World } 355 April–early June 1989) a national uprising demanding that the CCP chart an even bolder course ...

356 { China’s Quest off, it became complacent and fell behind. The late Ming and Qing periods, plus the Mao era, served as examp ...

Opening to the Outside World } 357 reverse-engineered, often with Soviet assistance; copied, often with simpli- fications; and t ...

358 { China’s Quest capitalist countries were entering the “information era”—a transition of cre- ative destruction as profound ...

Opening to the Outside World } 359 of thousands of brightly displayed goods. Even with a single product—toilet paper or toothpas ...