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China’s Choices: Scenarios for China in the Context of an Emerging Global Civilization

In: Asian Post-crisis Management

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  • Howard V. Perlmutter

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‘One of the great “ifs” and harsh ironies of history hangs on the fact that in January 1945, four and a half years before they achieved national power in China, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai in an effort to establish a working relationship with the United States offered to come to Washington to talk in person with President Roosevelt. What became of the offer has been a mystery until, with the declassification of new material, we now know for the first time that the United States made no response to the overture. Twenty seven years, two wars, and x million lives later, after immeasurable harm wrought by mutual suspicion and phobia of two great powers not on speaking terms, an American President, reversing the unmade journey of 1945, has traveled to Peking to speak with the same two Chinese leaders. Might the interim have been otherwise?’ B. Tuchman (1975).

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  • Howard V. Perlmutter, 2002. "China’s Choices: Scenarios for China in the Context of an Emerging Global Civilization," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Usha C. V. Haley & Frank-Jürgen Richter (ed.), Asian Post-crisis Management, chapter 10, pages 176-198, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59583-5_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230595835_10
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