Chinese Foreign Policy

Three New Studies

Michael Pillsbury

Expert InsightsPublished 1975

A review of three books: The World and China, 1922-1972, by John Gittings; China and Southeast Asia, by Jay Taylor; and Three and a Half Powers: The New Balance in Asia, by Harold Hinton. Gittings' book examines the intellectual origins of Chinese foreign policy by analyzing the writings of the Chinese Communists themselves, including the works of Mao Tse-tung. Taylor's book offers carefully documented, new interpretations of Peking's foreign policy, revealing important mutual relationships between Peking's internal politics and its relations with the surrounding Asian states and revolutionary movements. Hinton's book is a loosely argued, completely undocumented, rather journalistic review of international relations in Asia since World War II. It hardly meets the high standards set in his earlier books.

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Pillsbury, Michael, Chinese Foreign Policy: Three New Studies. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1975. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5561.html.
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