| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism. By James Peck. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xvi, 333 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 1-55849-536-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-55849-537-1.)

During the first two decades of the Cold War (roughly 1947–1968), American policy toward the People's Republic of China (PRC) was harsher in many ways than U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. The United States engaged in high-level diplomacy, permitted cultural interaction, and allowed trade in nonsecurity related goods with the Soviets. In contrast, the United States refused to recognize the PRC, enforced a stricter trade embargo (the so-called China differential), restricted travel, and generally sought to isolate Beijing from fruitful contact with the noncommunist world.

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