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Chapter 2. Joining the Socialist Camp
- Niu Jun, From Yan’an to the World, the Origins and Development of Chinese
Communist Foreign Policy, translated and edited by Steven I. Levine, Northwalk,
CT: EastBridge, 2005, pp. 316–43. - Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2001, p. 50. - Regarding the US “wedge strategy,” see John Lewis Gaddis, “The American ‘Wedge’
Strategy, 1949–1955,” in Sino-American Relations, 1945–1955: A Joint Reassessment of a
Critical Decade, edited by Harry Harding and Yuan Ming, Wilmington, DE: SR Books,
1989, pp. 157–83. This US “wedge strategy” can be seen as an expression of the approach
that had dominated US China policy since the 1890s, that of using and supporting China
as a check on other powers deemed more offensive to US interests—Russia, Japan, etc. See
Warren I. Cohen, America’s Response to China, 5th ed., New York: Columbia University
Press, 2010. - Niu Jun, From Yan’an, pp. 332–33.
- This is a central theme of Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine, Mao: The Real
Story, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012. - Wu Xiuquan, Eight Years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (January 1950–October
1958)—Memoirs of a Diplomat, Beijing: New World Press, 1985, p. 10. - Quoted in Niu Jun, From Yan’an, p. 323.
- Renmin ribao, October 8, 1949. Quoted in Chu-yuan Cheng, Economic Relations
between Peking and Moscow: 1949–1963, New York: Praeger, 1964, p. 91. - Mao Zedong, “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship,” Selected Writings of Mao
Tse-tung, Vol. 4, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1961, p. 415. - Hua-yu Li, Mao and the Economic Stalinization of China, 1948–1953, Lanham,
MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, p. 24. - Regarding the negotiation of the 1950 treaty, see Sergei Goncharov, John
W. Lewis, and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War, Palo Alto,
CA: Stanford University Press, 1994, pp. 81–109. Chen Jian, China’s Road to the Korean
War; the Making of the Sino-American Confrontation, New York: Columbia University
Press, 1994, p. 64–91. - The Far Eastern component of the Soviet-US agreement at Yalta in February 1945
had provided for Soviet entry into the war against Japan following Germany’s surrender.
In exchange for this Soviet assistance, the US agreed to help pressure Chiang Kai-shek
and his ROC to grant the USSR certain special rights in China’s Northeast. Stalin also
pledged, as part of this arrangement, to support Chiang Kai-shek’s ROC to the detri-
ment of the CCP. Yalta was in many regards China’s, and the CCP’s, first experience of a
Soviet-American condominium. - Wu Xiuquan, Eight Years, pp. 9–10.
- Hua-yu Li, Stalinization, p. 28.
- Chen Jian, China’s Road, pp. 74–5.
- Hua-yu Li, Stalinization, p. 30. Gancharov, Lewis, Xue, Uncertain Partners,
pp. 82–97. - Wu Xiuquan, Eight Years, p. 10.
- A source containing the texts of both the 1945 and the 1950 Sino-Soviet agreements
is Aitchen K. Wu, China and the Soviet Union, London: Methuen, 1950.