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The Great-Power Triangle and Chinese Foreign Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

John Gittings
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“Oppose the strategy of striking with two ‘fists’ in two directions at the same time, and uphold the strategy of striking with one ‘fist’ in one direction at one time.” This is a good year for looking back at the triangular relationship between China, the Soviet Union and the United States—and not only because it is the twentieth anniversary of the People's Republic. For it is also a year which has seen the contradictions in this relationship sharpened to an extreme and almost satirical degree.

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Research Article
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The China Quarterly , Volume 39 , September 1969 , pp. 41 - 54
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1969

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