The China Threat

Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19909427
AutoresNancy Bernkopf Tucker (autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Páginas295
Data de publicação2012-12-31
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoThe China threat (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraColumbia University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7312/tuck15924
OpenAlexW4250633191
Open LibraryOL27156418M
ISBN9780231159258
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker confronts the coldest period of the cold war—the moment in which personality, American political culture, public opinion, and high politics came together to define the Eisenhower Administration's policy toward China. A sophisticated, multidimensional account based on prodigious, cutting edge research, this volume convincingly portrays Eisenhower's private belief that close relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China were inevitable and that careful consideration of the PRC should constitute a critical part of American diplomacy. Tucker provocatively argues that the Eisenhower Administration's hostile rhetoric and tough actions toward China obscure the president's actual views. Behind the scenes, Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, pursued a more nuanced approach, one better suited to China's specific challenges and the stabilization of the global community. Tucker deftly explores the contradictions between Eisenhower and his advisors' public and private positions. Her most powerful chapter centers on Eisenhower's recognition that rigid trade prohibitions would undermine the global postwar economic recovery and push China into a closer relationship with the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Tucker finds Eisenhower's strategic thinking on Europe and his fear of toxic, anticommunist domestic politics constrained his leadership, making a fundamental shift in U.S. policy toward China difficult if not impossible. Consequently, the president was unable to engage congress and the public effectively on China, ultimately failing to realize his own high standards as a leader

Administration (probate law) · China · Diplomacy · Foreign policy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Public Administration · 1953-1961 · foreign relations · united states