Iron Fist for Pacific East
Iron Fist for Pacific East
Author(s): Stephen R. Nagy
Subject(s): Politics, Economic policy, International relations/trade, Geopolitics
Published by: Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije IFIMES
Keywords: Pacific; East; foreign policy; China; USA; economic policy;
Summary/Abstract: “Americans performed three very different policies on the People’s Republic: From a total negation (and the Mao-time mutual annihilation assurances), to Nixon’s sudden cohabitation. Finally, a Copernican-turn: the US spotted no real ideological differences between them and the post-Deng China. This signaled a ‘new opening’: West imagined China’s coastal areas as its own industrial suburbia. Soon after, both countries easily agreed on interdependence (in this marriage of convenience): Americans pleased their corporate (machine and tech) sector and unrestrained its greed, while Chinese in return offered a cheap labor, no environmental considerations and submissiveness in imitation.
Series: IFIMES Research Papers
- Page Count: 5
- Publication Year: 2020
- Language: English
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