Towards the End of Isolationism: China’s Foreign Policy after Mao

Yahuda, Michael

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“…Internal affinities among ethnic Chinese people in Indonesia and Malaysia, for instance, provoked riots against them in late 1960s, and continue to complicate the multicultural agenda in both. 8 Recent case studies presented in The China Quarterly show that perceptions of ethnic favouritism have also generated hostility towards Chinese immigrants across Africa. 9 The predicament of Chinese communities in Latin America is more subdued, but regional administrators have nevertheless struggled to incorporate them into domestic structures of governance and compliance.…”

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Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba

Hearn¹

2012

The China Quarterly

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Chinese communities resident in Mexico and Cuba face a common problem: their dealings with business partners in China are perceived as a threat to national interests. In Mexico this concern emanates from manufacturers unable to compete with Chinese imports, and is evident in antagonistic news media and acts of hostility against Chinese businesses. In Cuba it stems from the state's stewardship over economic sovereignty, and is evident in efforts to assimilate Havana's Chinatown and its entrenched informal sector into a centralized scheme of commercial regulation. Interviews with policy makers, local officials and Chinese entrepreneurs indicate that the “rationalization” of Chinese ethnic allegiances for the greater public good is a critical step towards alleviating tensions. I conclude that both countries can leverage benefits from overseas Chinese communities, but to do so they must support their entrepreneurial activities, harness their networks to promote targeted imports and exports, and develop more culturally sensitive regulations.

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Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba

Hearn¹

2012

The China Quarterly

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“…Snow (1994) observes that although there was still a rhetoric of South–South cooperation and solidarity, the reality was increasingly hollow, and African nations confronted a ‘cold new realism’ in Chinese diplomacy. China's focus was on its own modernisation, and its scarce resources were deployed to that end rather than to aid Africa (Yahuda 1983). Economic pragmatism was the order of the day.…”

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“…A profound ideological commitment to the eventual spread of Chinese socialism was underpinned by identification with colonised and exploited nations. Yahuda (1978), for example, suggests that the humiliating national memory of the Opium Wars should not be under-estimated in explaining China's promotion of an anti-imperialist axis. 5 In the short to medium term, however, Larkin argues that these ideological imperatives were translated into the more modest aims of supporting anticolonial liberation movements, such as the National Liberation Front (FLN) in Algeria and the growing number of independent African states in asserting their economic and political autonomy.…”

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China and Africa: Emerging Challenges to the Geographies of Power

Mawdsley

2007

Geography Compass

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Over the last few years, China has assiduously pursued stronger economic and diplomatic relations with many Asian, African and Latin American countries. In part, this is fuelled by its extraordinary economic growth, which has led to a boom in domestic resource demand, and the search for profitable markets and investment outlets. China is also seeking diplomatic support in challenging the inequalities of ‘global’ governance. For better and worse, China's rise will lead to changes in the present structures and loci of power in an uneven world. This review article examines one set of China's ‘South–South’ interactions through an historical account of Sino–African relations from 1949 to the present day. It points to the complexity of interactions between diverse Chinese and African actors, a range of opportunities and problems, and the dangers of a defensive response from the West, if based on unreflexive and unsophisticated foreign policy analysis.

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“…11 11 Waldron (1990), covers the Ming period in depth; Holsti (1982b) and Yahuda (1983) discuss the turn inward under Mao. …”

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The Myth of American Isolationism

Braumoeller

2010

Foreign Policy Analysis

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International relations scholarship often describes America's foreign policy tradition as having isolationist tendencies or an isolationist dimension, a characterization derived most directly from American security policy in the 1920s and 1930s. This article offers a critique of this characterization. American diplomacy in the 1920s was subtle but ambitious and effective. American policy in the years leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor was in fact quite responsive to events on the European continent. In short, American isolationism is a myth.

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Towards the End of Isolationism: China’s Foreign Policy after Mao

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Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba

Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba

China and Africa: Emerging Challenges to the Geographies of Power

The Myth of American Isolationism

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