Showing papers by "Donald S. Zagoria published in 1986"

China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s

Abstract: What role will China play in world affairs during the 1980s, now that it has normalized relations with the United States and opened wider its economic doors? In this thoughtful and important book, six respected scholars analyze the major factors that shape the foreign policies of China today. The book begins with an essay by Michael Hunt that puts China's foreign relations in historical perspective. In subsequent chapters, Kenneth Liberthal discusses the domestic context of China's foreign policy, Steven Levine analyzes China's regional policies within Asia, Bruce Reynolds focuses on the role China plays in today's international economy, and Jonathan Pollack assesses China's place in the global strategic competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. The book concludes with a chapter by editor Harry Harding on change and continuity in China's foreign policy since 1949.

The USSR and Asia in 1985: The First Year of Gorbachev

Abstract: Gorbachev's New Tactics Although the main outlines of Soviet policy in Asia in 1985 remained the same under the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, there were some switches in tone and emphasis. Gorbachev has clearly made a high priority of improving relations with both China and Japan. The Soviets have scheduled foreign minister level talks with both countries, and they have increased trade and cultural exchanges with China and hope to do the same with Japan. In Southeast Asia, they have offered to mediate the conflict between Vietnam and ASEAN over Cambodia. Gorbachev has also revived the old Brezhnev proposals for a dialogue on Asian security. Still, while there is an appearance of new flexibility, Soviet positions have not altered in substance. There is a continuing Soviet buildup of military power in the Pacific. There are few signs that the Soviets will make any concessions on their territorial issue with Japan, or that they will accept any of China's "three conditions" for "normalization." Nor are there any substantial indications that Moscow will change its policy of support for the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia or alter its own policy in Afghanistan.