"A Tolerable State of Order": The United States, Taiwan, and the Recognition of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979
Journal: OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries)
Year: 2012

American policy toward the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China from 1949-1979 was geared primarily toward the accomplishment of one objective: to achieve a reorientation of Chinese Communist revolutionary foreign policy that would contribute to the establishment of a "tolerable state of order" in the international community based on the principles of respect for each nations' territorial integrity and political sovereignty. China's revolutionary approach to its foreign relations