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

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Chapter 24. China’s Long Debate over Response to the US Challenge

1. For media discussion of the program, see Jeremy Page, “China Spins New Lessons
   from Soviet Fall,” Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2013. Jane Perlez, “Strident Video by
   Chinese Military Casts U.S. as Menace, “ New York Times, October 31, 2013.


2. For an overview of the US debate, see Owen Harries, “A Year of Debating China,”
   National Interest, no.  58 (Winter 1999/2000), p.  141. For a Chinese view of the debate,
   see Qingguo Jia, “Frustration and Hope:  Chinese Perception of the Engagement Policy
   Debate in the United States,” Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 10, no.  27 (2001), pp.
   321–30. One of the most provocative US contributions was Richard Bernstein and Ross
   H.  Munro, “The Coming Conflict with America,” Foreign Affairs, March–April 1997,
   pp. 18–32.


3. This discussion follows Robert L.  Suettinger, Beyond Tiananmen:  The Politics of
   U.S.-China Relations 1989–2000, Washington, DC: Brookings, 2003, pp. 264–78, 312.


4. Suettinger, Beyond Tiananmen, p. 278.


5. Suettinger, Beyond Tiananmen, p. 284.


6. Suettinger, Beyond Tiananmen, p. 323.


7. Suettinger, Beyond Tiananmen, pp. 313–5.


8. James Mann, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China,
   from Nixon to Clinton, New York: Knopf, 1999, pp. 355–6.


9. Suettinger, Beyond Tiananmen, p. 318.


10. Joint U.S.-China Statement, October 29, 1997, available at http://www.state.gov/
    www/regions/cap971029-usc-utstml.html.


11. This section relies on Robert Lawrence Kuhn, The Man Who Changed China: The
    Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin, New York: Crown Publishers, 2004, pp. 324–49.


12. Kuhn, Jiang Zemin, p. 330.


13. This discussion of Clinton’s 1998 visit is from Robert Suettinger, Beyond Tiananmen,
    pp. 343–6.


14. Suettinger, Beyond Tiananmen, p. 347.


15. David M. Lampton, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations
    1989–2000, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 329–31.


16. “Handling the Falungong Case,” Chinese Law and Government, vol. 35, no.  1
    (January–February 2002), pp. 53–72. This is an account of CCP deliberations written by
    a liberal party member and critical of the hard-line rule of Jiang and Li Peng. The guest
    editor of these documents, Andrew Nathan, credits their veracity.


17. Ibid., p. 62.


18. Ibid., p. 68.


19. Lampton, Same Bed, p. 57.


20. Andrew J.  Nathan, “Guest Editor’s Introduction,” Chinese Law and Government,
    vol. 35, no. 1 (January–February 2002), p. 15.


21. Lampton, Same Bed, p. 58.


22. “The Bombing of China’s Embassy in Yugoslavia,” in “Zhu Rongji in 1999 (1),”
    Chinese Law and Government, vol. 35, no.  1 (January–February 2002), pp.  73–99, p.  74.
    The account of the Politburo meeting comes from this source.


23. Stanley O. Roth, “The Effects on U.S.-China Relations of the Accidental Bombing
    of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade,” testimony before the Subcommittee on East Asia