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Peaceful Engagement in Communist Disunity*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Extract

The policies of containment and of liberation were based on the premise that there is a united Soviet bloc. The purpose of containment was to prevent Soviet expansion; the purpose of liberation to roll back Communist frontiers. These policies have ceased to be relevant for the sixties. Today, the unity of the Communist camp is being strained by the increasingly open Sino-Soviet dispute.

Type
America and China: Opportunity for New Policies?
Copyright
Copyright © The China Quarterly 1962

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* A slightly shorter version of this article appeared in The New Republic (March 26, 1962), to the editor of which we are very grateful for permission to republish.