West European and East Asian perspectives on defense, deterrence, and strategy. Volume 5. Chinese perspectives on defense, deterrence, and strategy. Technical report, 1 December 1982-15 May 1984
This study assesses Chinese defense and foreign policy perspectives, especially as they influence, and are influenced by, China's strategic approach to international issues. Special emphasis is placed on China's recent perspectives on the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States, together with other major countries, as well as the Third World. China's views on international and regional security issues are assessed with reference both to Marxist and more-traditional Chinese influences, including the perspective of Mao's Three Worlds and the revisions that have been made in this view - which might now be called a unified front strategy at the global level. This study also identified the principal members of the strategic and foreign-policy elite in the PRC and examines their perspectives on such key issues as the U.S.-Soviet strategic equation and its implications for the military balance in the Asian-Pacific region; arms control and disarmament schemes (especially with respect to nuclear weapons); the credibility of the U.S. protective guarantee for allies in East Asia; trends in the regional nuclear power balance (including the question of nuclear proliferation in Asia); and the prospects for future Sino-American cooperation.
- Research Organization:
- Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc., Cambridge, MA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7008182
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-170891/6/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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