The Limits of Alliance
Cold War Solidarity and Canadian Wheat Exports to China, 1950–1963
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8156201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Greg Donaghy (corresponding author), Michael D Stevenson (0000-0002-8407-6373) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-50 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Agricultural History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-1482 • E-ISSN: 1533-8290 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00021482-83.1.29 |
| OpenAlex | W4251728648 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC’s efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition. Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communist China; mounting anger at Washington, DC’s use of subsidized wheat sales to capture traditional Canadian markets; and a surging sense of Canadian nationalism that sought a distinct role for Canada on the world stage. Clearly, as was so often the case in postwar Canadian foreign economic policy, a narrowly defined national interest easily trumped the ideological pressures of western solidarity
Alliance · Beijing · China · Communism · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Nationalism · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |