Published In

Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-22-2014

Subjects

United States -- Foreign relations -- China, China -- Foreign relations -- United States, Foreign relations

Abstract

Back in the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, the "strategic triangle" with the Soviet Union and China was the great game. The idea was to play off the two communist powers against one another, relying on their ideological warfare under Mao, deep cultural differences, and open conflict in border regions to sustain their mutual suspicions and fears of attack. Now the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak: China seems to be in charge of the game, using US-Russia enmity and its own on-again, off-again competition with the US to keep both those countries cooperative with and in need of Beijing.

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This is the publisher's final PDF. Originally published in Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus and can be found online at: http://japanfocus.org/-Mel-Gurtov/4239/article.html

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15345

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