¿Tiene China una política exterior?

Authors

  • John Gittings Profesor investigador, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

We know less about how China's foreign policy works than about almost any other aspect of its domestic politics. Nor are we better informed about the theoretical and analytical thinking on which its Foreign Policy is based. We believe that it is actually much more incipient and fragmentary than everyone might think and can be divided into three phases. The last one starts with the Great Leap Forward, and has been marked by China's relationship with the Third World, its support to revolutionary movements, its nuclear capacity, its attitude towards the United States, the UN, the problem of Taiwan, its dispute with the Soviet Union, its position on the Vietnam War, and the impact of the Cultural Revolution.

Keywords:

People's Republic of China, Foreign Policy, Sino-Soviet Relations, Theory of International Relations, Asia

Author Biography

John Gittings, Profesor investigador, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

Fue investigador del Royal Institute of International Affairs en Londres. Es ahora profesor investigador de asuntos de Asia en el Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile. Es el autor de The role of the Chinese army (Oxford University Press, 1967).