One system, Two Chinas: Dreams of capitalist convergence in 1980s East Asia
One system, Two Chinas: Dreams of capitalist convergence in 1980s East Asia
Investment, human rights, and democracy formed a triangular web between Taipei, Beijing, and Washington, D.C. In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan had taken U.S. President Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter to task for cozying up to the People's Republic of China (PRC). in the Republic of China (ROC), his election buoyed hopes he would sell Taiwan the latest military kit and reverse the non-recognition that had accompanied the normalisation of U.S.-PRC relations. Instead, he and PRC Vice Chairman Zhao Ziyang set ceilings on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan in 1982. Growing American and Taiwanese investment in mainland China, where Communist Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping was launching his campaign of “reform and opening up,” buoyed hopes that the two Chinas were heading toward a lucrative convergence, a sales pitch that Anna Chennault, a uncrowned queen of Washington society and U.S.-Chinese relations, as well as Deng’s American confidant, successfully made to the Reagan administration.
Ronald Reagan, U.S.-China relations, history of capitalism, globalization, 1980s, U.S. foreign relations, Taiwan, People's Republic of China
Hunt, Jonathan
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Hunt, Jonathan
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Hunt, Jonathan
(2019)
One system, Two Chinas: Dreams of capitalist convergence in 1980s East Asia.
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Hunt, Jonathan and Miles, Simon
(eds.)
The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s.
Cornell University Press.
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Investment, human rights, and democracy formed a triangular web between Taipei, Beijing, and Washington, D.C. In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan had taken U.S. President Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter to task for cozying up to the People's Republic of China (PRC). in the Republic of China (ROC), his election buoyed hopes he would sell Taiwan the latest military kit and reverse the non-recognition that had accompanied the normalisation of U.S.-PRC relations. Instead, he and PRC Vice Chairman Zhao Ziyang set ceilings on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan in 1982. Growing American and Taiwanese investment in mainland China, where Communist Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping was launching his campaign of “reform and opening up,” buoyed hopes that the two Chinas were heading toward a lucrative convergence, a sales pitch that Anna Chennault, a uncrowned queen of Washington society and U.S.-Chinese relations, as well as Deng’s American confidant, successfully made to the Reagan administration.
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Submitted date: 15 January 2019
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Ronald Reagan, U.S.-China relations, history of capitalism, globalization, 1980s, U.S. foreign relations, Taiwan, People's Republic of China
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