The Practice of Power: U.S. Relations with China Since 1949. (book reviews)

Samuel S. Kim. Columbia University

Sino-American relations in recent years have fallen into the serious state of disrepair that recalls, once again, the wild mood swings of the historic U.S. love-hate relationship with China. With the clarity and simplicity of East-West conflict gone, the relations between the world's lone superpower and the world's most populous country have increasingly become mired in and symptomatic of charged domestic politics in Beijing and Washington. Contentious bilateral issues - previously overshadowed and repressed by the vision of global strategic ...

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