Deng Xiaoping and China's Foreign Policy.

Deng Xiaoping and China's Foreign Policy- Front Cover -- Deng Xiaoping and China's Foreign Policy -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Judging Deng Xiaoping's foreign policy "pragmatism" -- Understanding Deng's "pragmatic" foreign policy -- Deng Xiaoping as a personality and as a leader -- "Pragmatism" and Deng's Chinese socialist ideology -- Differing views on Deng's "pragmatism" -- "Pragmatism," party politics and Mao and Deng -- Deng's UN debut: "China will never become a superpower!" -- How can realism be squared with idealism? -- Deng's unconventional view of power in the state system -- "Hiding capabilities and biding time": defensive logic or a strategy for world domination? -- Deng Xiaoping and the Western realism -- Classical realism and classical European statesmanship -- Strategy as deception and limiting the resort to war -- The relevance of the recent revolutionary and the deep Chinese imperial past -- The foreign policy legacy of the deep imperial past -- Honesty and deception in international relations -- Idealism and realism and the relevance of recent Party history -- Deng's "pragmatism" and the Hong Kong question -- Spreading "bourgeois liberalism" through China's "open door" -- Learning with modesty and disclaiming world leadership -- Deng's apprehended mortality and legacy -- The structure of this book -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The roots and implications of Deng's "independent foreign policy" -- Dialectics in Deng's "Chinese foreign policy thought" -- Establishing first principles in China's foreign policy -- Mao, Zhou and Deng on "independence and self-reliance" -- Deng supports and revises Mao's foreign policy -- The advent of the "independent foreign policy of peace and development" -- Deng and the legacy of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

Notes -- Chapter 3: Sino-American normalization without closure -- Vice-Premier Deng goes to Washington! -- Handling differences through the stages of normalization -- The lead-up to 1972 normalization -- China's UN victory vs. "power politics" -- The Taiwan Question, deferred, in favour of aspiring geopolitical understanding? -- Normalization, pragmatism and drafting the 1972 Shanghai Communique -- Deng Xiaoping's approach to Sino-US relations -- Managing the contradictions of normalization -- Normalization stalled in Post-Tiananmen Square sanctions -- China abstains from the UN vote on Kuwait -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Ideology and the Five Principles in Sino-Soviet and Sino-Russian normalizations -- The chronology of pathological Sino-Soviet animosity -- The political fortunes of Deng Xiaoping and China's foreign policy -- "When the melon ripens, it falls off its stem: where water flows, a channel is formed" -- Conclusion: Deng and the progress of Sino-Soviet-Russian normalizations -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Deng's "independent foreign policy" and "independent globalization" -- The changing dimensions of China's "self-reliance" -- "Self-reliance" and the "open door" -- The politics of the special economic zones -- "Self-reliance and the open door" to establish a "moderately prosperous society" -- "Self-reliance" and General Secretary Jiang's policies under Deng's helmsmanship -- Conclusion: the changing relevance of "self-reliance" and the "open door" -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Deng and China's contemporary foreign policy -- Jiang Zemin beats Deng's drum -- Hu Jintao further extends Deng's foreign policy legacy -- Xi Jinping and Deng's legacy -- Deng's legacy and the prospect for Chinese "leadership" in world affairs -- Notes -- Select glossary of Chinese foreign policy -- References -- Selected References in Chinese and English -- Index.

The book outlines how Deng worked to normalize relations with both the United States and the Soviet Union, how he was disappointed by the lack of reciprocation by the United States, where relations are still portrayed in terms of "the China threat", and how the principles established by Deng continue to be adhered to.

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