Kennedy, China, and the tragedy of no chance

Journal of American-East Asian Relations

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 107-116

  Kochavi, Noam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 85016385097     PISSN: 10583947     EISSN: 18765610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187656198X00072     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. That Kennedy was enormously worried about China's emergence as a nuclear power has been widely recognized in the literature. See Gordon H. Chang, Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union (Stanford, Calif., 1990), chap. 8;
2. James Fetzer, "Clinging to Containment: China Policy," in Thomas G. Paterson, ed., Kennedy's Quest for Victory (Oxford, England, 1989), 179;
3. Rosemary Foot, The Practice of Power: U.S. Relations with China since 1949 (Oxford, England, 1995), 178;
4. Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy (New York,1965), 4-5, 284;
5. Warren I. Cohen, Dean Rusk (Totowa, N.J., 1980), 99;
6. U. Alexis Johnson, The Right Hand of Power (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1984), Allen S. Whiting letter to author, 13 Oct. 1998; 320-21;
7. See Noam Kochavi, "Mist across the Bamboo Curtain: China's Internal Crisis and the American Intelligence Process, 1961-1963," Journal ofAmerican-East Asian Relations 5 (Summer 1996), 149.
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