Chinese state media promoted the idea that a “prosperous China would be a peaceful China” and that the country was a huge market for American exports, she said. president put himself “in the position of supplicant to Beijing,” said June Teufel Dreyer, a Chinese politics specialist at the University of Miami. He hoped that China, an ally of communist North Vietnam in its battle with the U.S.-backed South, could play a role in resolving the conflict.
Nixon was seeking to isolate the Soviet Union and exit a prolonged and bloody Vietnam War that had divided American society. But the relationship has never - and will never - be easy.” Now they are mainly in the security realm. “Perhaps 50 years ago the reasons were mainly economic. “The U.S.-China relationship has always been contentious but one of necessity,” said Oriana Skylar Mastro, a China expert at Stanford University.
Despite repeated Chinese disavowals, America worries that the democratic-led world that triumphed over the Soviet Union could be challenged by the authoritarian model of a powerful and still-rising China. The Cold War is long over, but on both sides there are fears a new one could be beginning. The relationship between China and the United States was always going to be a challenge, and after half a century of ups and downs, is more fraught than ever. President Richard Nixon flew into communist China’s center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform U.S.-China relations and China’s position in the world in ways that were unimaginable at the time. BEIJING (AP) - At the height of the Cold War, U.S.
0 kommentar(er)
