Communist China and Asia (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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The emergence of Communist China as a major and dynamic power on the Asian mainland poses many challenges: ideological, political, economic, and military. In Communist China and Asia, A. Doak Barnett first identifies the salient features of this Communist regime: its totalitarian organization, its rapid economic development, its expansionist strategy and tactics, and its military potential. He then broadens his inquiry to consider the Chinese impact abroad, in South and Southeast Asia, in Japan, and throughout the world. Finally, he turns to the question of Taiwan, the Chinese nationalist regime, the American position, and the general implications for the United States in the future-suggesting that the most effective American approach would be careful moves toward a "two-Chinas" policy, together with a program of strong support of non-Communist Asian states. Mr. Barnett's study is, according to Henry R. Lieberman in the New York Times, "clearly one of the best analytical reports on Communist China and Asia that has yet appeared in print. It may even be the best...It is a solid piece of work by an American who was born in China, who has spent years traveling in and around that country both as a student and reporter, who has supplemented this with extra research, who thinks clearly, writes lucidly and who has no particular axe to grind." Henry L. Roberts writes in the New York Herald Tribune that "this admirably judicious and constructive study...is of particular value in setting forth not just what we know, but more important, what we must come to know in the near future."
(Taken from the back cover)