| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Comparative/World

Victor S. Kaufman. Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 269. $34.95.

This volume chronicles the changing relationship between the United States and Britain, focusing on their policies toward China from 1948 to 1972. At the beginning, according to Victor S. Kaufman, British and American policy makers were basically in agreement over their policy objective toward the People's Republic of China (PRC), which was to drive a wedge between it and its Soviet ally. The two Western allies mainly disagreed over how to achieve this objective. The Korean War and the subsequent Cold War confrontation in Asia turned their differences into real disagreements. This ended in 1972 when President Richard M. Nixon visited Beijing and abandoned American support for Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China (ROC) government at the United Nations. The Nixon shock marked a reversal of American policy. Nixon, in effect, accepted the British policy of positively engaging the PRC, which ended the longstanding Anglo-American differences over China. Ironically, this was achieved by Nixon excluding Britain from its policy deliberation. In other words, when U.S. policy toward China changed to dovetail that of Britain, it was not because of British influence. . . .

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