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Compradors, Neo-colonialism, and Transnational Class Struggle: PRC relations with Algeria and India, 1953–1965

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Abstract

This study of China's relations with Algeria and India shows that the Mao-era emphasis on the transnational function of class made it fundamentally sceptical of the privileged status of the nation-state and transformed Beijing's posture towards the Third World in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Beijing's sense of a growing matrix of transnational class forces damaged relations with India, a key Third World moderate, and spurred closer ties with non-state, revolutionary movements like the Algerian Front Libération Nationale (FLN). Thus Beijing retreated from the post-Korean War phase of moderate diplomacy during which it had eschewed support for revolution abroad under the rhetoric of the ‘Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence’. This article relates Beijing's class analysis of the growing challenges in its relations with India to the arc of interactions between the communist Chinese, the FLN revolutionaries, and the newly post-colonial Algeria. It demonstrates that because of Beijing's understanding of how the domestic class category ‘comprador’ facilitated ‘neo-colonialism’ (an emerging Third World concept), China's anti-imperialism must be understood through its perception of the transnational function of class forces. This understanding of the post-colonial dilemma—how far to maintain or sever ties with the West, which grew partly from Chinese perceptions of Indian politics—explains the curious difficulty that Beijing faced in maintaining cooperative relations with many newly independent nations like Algeria. The emphasis on transnational class struggle also provides an interpretation of Beijing's foreign policy which is intimately linked to domestic politics and affirms the contribution of ideology to the Sino-Soviet split.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , July 2021 , pp. 1227 - 1267
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117 CMFA, 107-00970-03.

118 ‘Chen Yi fuzongli jiejian A'erjiliya zhuhua waijiaoshituan tuanzhang Abudule Lakeman Jiwan de tanhua jilu [Record of talks between Vice Premier Chen Yi and the head of Algeria's permanent delegation to China Abderrahmane Kiouane]’, 25 July 1961, CMFA, 107-00970-04.

119 ‘Guobin jiedai qingkuang (A'basi zongli canguanzhong de fanying) [Circumstances on state visitors (President Abbas's reactions during visit)]’, 2 October 1960, CMFA, 204-00119-25.

120 ‘A'erjiliya gongheguo linshi zhengfu zongli ben yousufu ben keda zhi zhou enlai zongli de xin [Letter from Benyoucef Benkhedda, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Algeria to Premier Zhou Enlai]', 9 February 1962, Zhou zongli huijian a’erjiliya waijiao shituan tuanzhang jiwan tanhua jilu [Record of talks between Premier Zhou Enlai and Kiouane, Head of the Algerian diplomatic mission], 20 February 1962, CMFA, 107-00991-01.

121 Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution, pp. 364–65.

122 Byrne, Mecca of Revolution, pp. 126–29.

123 Niu, ‘1962’, pp. 30–36.

124 ‘Waijiaobu shoudian, alian tailai [Embassy in United Arab Republic to Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs]', 2 July 1962, Dui a'erjiliya neibu fenqi de kanfa he jianyi, zhongguo zhengfu lingdaoren jiejian a zhuhua shituanzhang de qingshi ji zhongyang pishi [Opinions and suggestions regarding Algeria's internal differences, Chinese Government leaders' instructions to receive Algeria's representative in China and the centre’s annotations], 2–16 July 1962, CMFA, 107-00994-01.

125 ‘Dui a'erjiliya neibu fenqi de kanfa he jianyi wo zhengfu lingdaoren yuejian a zhuhua shituanzhang deng wenti de qingshi [Instructions on opinions and suggestions related to internal differences in Algeria and the Government's leaders meeting with the head of the Algerian delegation and other issues]’, Foreign Ministry, 5 July 1962, CMFA, 107-00994-01.

126 Zhongguo paizhu a'erjiliya dashiguan linshi daiban de qingshi ji youguan dianbao [China's request to send an interim chargé d'affaires to the embassy in Algeria and related telegrams], 19 July–11 August 1962, CMFA, 107-00995-02.

127 Byrne, Mecca of Revolution, pp. 126–29.

128 Niu, ‘1962’, p. 33; and Chen, Mao's China, p. 210.

129 ‘Dui a minzu jiefang chenxian neibu douzheng de kanfa [Opinion on Algerian FLN internal struggle]', Embassy in Switzerland, 2 August 1962, Zhongguo zhuwaishi dui a'erjiliya xingshi de kanfa [China's overseas diplomats’ views on the situation in Algeria], 5 August–8 September 1962, CMFA, 107-00997-01.

130 ‘A'erjiliya qingkuang he shiguan kanfa [Algerian situation and embassy's view]’, Embassy in Morocco, 5 August 1962, CMFA, 107-00997-01. Connelly describes the OAS as a ‘terrorist militia made up of the most diehard settlers’: see Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution, p. 22.

131 ‘Du'er tong ke dashi tanhua neirong [Talks between Touré and Ambassador Ke]', Embassy in Guinea, 8 August 1962, CMFA, 107-00997-01.

132 ‘A'erjiliya xingshi ji jidian jianyi [Situation in Algeria and a few suggestions]’, Embassy in Morocco, 9 August 1962, CMFA, 107-00997-01.

133 ‘Yafeisi he gongkai fusizhang huijian a'erjiliya zhu zhongguo shituan tuanzhang Jiwan tanhua jilu [Record of talks between Asian African Bureau Deputy Director He Gongkai and head of Algeria's delegation to China Abderrahmane Kiouane]’, 10 August 1962, CMFA, 107-00996-05.

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137 ‘A xin zhengfu zucheng qingkuang jiqi neiwai zhengce [Composition of Algeria’s new government and its internal and external policies]’, Embassy in Algeria, 9 October 1962, CMFA, 107-00997-01.

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141 Liu, Chinese Ambassadors, p. 85.

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143 ‘Guanyu zhudong dui a'erjiliya jinxing yuanzhu he jinyibu kaizhan gongzuo de qingshi [Regarding instructions for actively increasing aid to Algeria and further expansion of work]’, Embassy in Algeria, 20 February 1963, CMFA, 107-01016-02.

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149 Byrne, Mecca of Revolution, pp. 113–15.

150 Liu, Chinese Ambassadors, pp. 76–90.

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159 Li, ‘Building a Black Bridge’, p. 137.