Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989

by Robert S. Ross

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804724547
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Perceptive View of US-China Relations

Ross combines thorough research into both Chinese and American materials with a useful theoretical perspective to yield the definitive guide to the ups and downs of China-US ties. He correctly views each side's waxing and waning influence as a function of situational strategic advantage--first in the US-Chinese-Soviet "strategic triangle" and, later, bilaterally--and shows how changes in global politics affect mutual perceptions of interest and thus drive changes in policy. Lucid, well-researched (although Ross's frequent use of Chinese "scholarly" sources--which are often little more than official documents under the imprimatur of the Beijing bishopric--has its periodic down-side), and convincingly argued, this is the essential title on the topic.