Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961-1974

With Nixon''s historic reconciliation with China in 1972, Sino-American relations were restored, and China moved from being regarded as America''s most implacable enemy to a friend and tacit ally. Existing accounts of the rapprochement focus on the shifting balance of power between the USA, China and the Soviet Union, but in this book Goh argues that they cannot adequately explain the timing and p...