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Vajpayee, Atal Bihari, 227, 437–438,
743 –74 6, 751
Van Tien Dung, 237–238
Vance, Cyrus, 404
Vatican, 465
Velayati, Ali Akbar, 447
Vietnam, 201–204, 232–258, 259–260, 321–325,
383–399
independence from France, 88–90, 95–99
1979 war with, 386–399
Vietnam War
China support for Hanoi, 235–241
China and deepening Hanoi-Moscow ties,
249–253
US strategy of gradual escalation and China,
241–246
Hanoi’s displeasure with PRC-US
rapprochement, 246–249, 253–256
Vilnius Massacre, 521
Vo Nguyen Giap, 98, 203, 238, 250–251,
392, 396
Vogel, Ezra, 361, 396, 407–408, 483, 788
Vyshinsky, Andrei, 35, 38, 65
Wan Li, 491, 541
Wang Bingnan, 101, 104, 178, 436
Wang Dongxing, 292
Wang Hairong, 273, 315–316
Wang Hongwen, 316, 817
Wang Jiaxiang et al. letter, 164–165, 201, 203,
216, 276
Wa ng Li, 273 –274
Wang Ming, 275–277, 812
Wang Renzhi, 519, 523
Wang Yi, 719, 723
Wang Zhen, 496, 513
War, China and
Korean war, 17, 59–71, 72–91
1962 Sino-Indian war, 167, 175–182
1965 India-Pakistan, 192–195
1964-1975 Vietnam-US, 232–258
1979 war with Vietnam, 386–399
“war and revolution,” 377, 557
Ward incident, Angus, 41
Webb, Sydney & Beatrice, 172
web nationalism, 774
Wei Guoqing, 89, 95
Wei Jingsheng, 533, 639
Wei Wei, 755, 853
Weimar Republic, 544
Weinberger, Caspar, 423, 442
Wellington Koo, 101
Wen Jiabao, 662–664, 699, 726, 746–747
Western presence in China, eradication
of, 43–47
Westmoreland, William, 289
Whiting, Allen, 180, 453, 484, 788
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 758, 762–764
Woodcock, Leonard, 404, 406–407, 422
World Trade Organization
decision to enter, 686–694
Zhu Rongji’s 1999 proposals, 647–648
World War I, 9, 783
World War II, 15–16, 84, 127, 455
Wu Jianmin, 727
Wu Lengxi, 115, 120–126, 134, 136,
139–141, 171
Wu Xiuquan, 32, 35–37, 164–166
Wu Xueqian, 447, 493, 510
Wu Yi, 690Xi Zhongxun, 372
Xiao Ke, 418
Xu Jiatun, 488, 582, 588–589, 591–597,
602, 604
Xu Shiyou, 383, 385, 387
Xu Xiangqian, 277, 290
Xu Xin, 509, 519
Xuan Thuy, 237Yafeng Xia, 302
Yalta, 33, 36, 38–39, 76
Yanayev, Gennady, 520, 522–523
Yang Dezhi, 387, 610
Yang Fuchang, 490, 502
Yang Jiechi, 656, 729, 749
Yang Shangkun, 470, 484, 490, 541, 609
Yao Dengshan, 267, 273–274
Yao Yilin, 432, 467, 470, 508, 515
Yazov, Dmitri, 518–519, 522
Ye Jianying, 290, 296, 301, 321–324, 331, 361
Yeltsin, Boris, 515–516, 518–525, 541–542,
545–547, 708
Yinhe incident, 555–556, 657
Yongle Emperor, 390
Yu Qiuli, 360
Yudin, Pavel, 118, 134–135, 137
Yugoslavia, 208, 305–306, 359, 551–552,
646–651, 691. See also TitoismZagoria, David, 154, 159
Zambia, 490
Zbigniew, Brzezinski, 384, 404, 416
Zhang Baifa, 555
Zhang Chunqiao, 316, 319–321, 324, 382
Zhang Jie, Al-hajji Mohammed Ali, 445–448
Zhang Wentian, 52
Zhao Ziyang, 379–380, 438–439, 465–472,
488–489, 507
Zhenbao Island, 279–280, 285, 290
Zhivkov, Todor, 510–511
Zhou Degao, 210–212