Lam Lai Sing, "Conservatism and the Kissinger–Mao Axis: Development of the Twin Global Orders"
English | ISBN: 1498511392 | 2015 | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1498511392 | 2015 | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Kissinger’s dual-purpose instrument of the US-China and US-Soviet détente was devised to achieve a stable balance of power in the contemporary world in the second half of the 1960s. Stimulated by both Kissinger’s doctrine and the historical novel, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mao’s global order of tripolarity was created to feature the new US-China relations in the early 1970s with his initiative of the ping-pong diplomacy through this Kissinger-Mao axis. This made his quest for a modernization revolution possible with the Western market oriented approach.
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