U.S. Foreign Policy Toward China

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A looks at its history since the 18th Century including chinese regional relations, Korean and Vietnam wars, Nixon-Kissinger rapprochement, Taiwan, trade and investment, Tiananmen Square, human rights and recommendations.

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"U.S. Foreign Policy and China
This research paper summarizes the historical background of American foreign policy toward China, the present state of relations between the United States and China and recommendations for the future. China and the United States have dealt with each other for more than two centuries. American foreign policy has fairly consistently supported the emergence of a stable, less impoverished, less authoritarian and friendly China. Often, those policy hopes were not firmly grounded in Chinese reality, but rather reflected a peculiarly American view of how China should conduct its affairs. In the 20th century, they were repeatedly dashed -- by the Japanese invasion in the 1930s, the Chinese civil war, the Chinese military intervention in Korea, the internal convulsion of the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen..."

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