Threatened by peace: The PRC’s peacefulness rhetoric and the ‘China’ representation question in the United Nations (1949-71)
Threatened by peace: The PRC’s peacefulness rhetoric and the ‘China’ representation question in the United Nations (1949-71)
In the 1950s/60s, the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) not only distrusted, but feared, the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s assertion to be peace-loving. The reason was that the PRC used its peacefulness claim to negotiate whether the ROC or the PRC should represent ‘China’ in the United Nations, based on a specific definition of ‘peacefulness’ and on the socialist World Peace Movement as a platform of public diplomacy and international networking. This explains a function of the PRC’s peacefulness claim in the Cold War and rewrites the chronology of the PRC’s gradual United Nations entry.
China, Taiwan, United Nations, China representation question, peace, World Peace Movement, World Peace Council
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Forster, Elisabeth
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Forster, Elisabeth
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Forster, Elisabeth
(2019)
Threatened by peace: The PRC’s peacefulness rhetoric and the ‘China’ representation question in the United Nations (1949-71).
Cold War History, 0, .
(doi:10.1080/14682745.2019.1678028).
Abstract
In the 1950s/60s, the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) not only distrusted, but feared, the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s assertion to be peace-loving. The reason was that the PRC used its peacefulness claim to negotiate whether the ROC or the PRC should represent ‘China’ in the United Nations, based on a specific definition of ‘peacefulness’ and on the socialist World Peace Movement as a platform of public diplomacy and international networking. This explains a function of the PRC’s peacefulness claim in the Cold War and rewrites the chronology of the PRC’s gradual United Nations entry.
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Accepted/In Press date: 4 December 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 December 2019
Keywords:
China, Taiwan, United Nations, China representation question, peace, World Peace Movement, World Peace Council
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/436767
ISSN: 1468-2745
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