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1. China under the Four Modernizations: Part 2. Selected Papers Submitted to the Joint Economic Committee. Congress of the United States, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session.

Author

Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC.

Abstract

The politics and performance of the post-Mao Chinese government (1976 to the present) in the areas of foreign economic relations and Sino-American normalization are examined. Realizing that the four modernizations program for bringing up to date agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense, initiated by Mao's successors in 1977, was too ambitious, China's current leadership is in the process of adjusting, reorienting, and retrenching the program into something more pragmatic, realistic, and attainable. Included among the topics discussed in this publication are: China's international trade and finance; China's capital construction and the prospects for foreign participation; China's hard currency export potential and import capacity through 1985; Sino-Japanese economic relations; China's grain imports; Chinese general agreement on tariff and trade; normalization of U.S. commercial relations with China; recent developments in China's trade practices; emerging functions of formal legal institutions in China's modernization; recent developments in China's treatment of intellectual property; U.S. firms in China trade; overcoming hindrances and impediments in U.S.-Chinese commercial negotiations; and the U.S.-China Joint Economic Committee. (RM)

Published
1982

2. Current Issues. 1983/84 Edition.

Author

Close Up Foundation, Arlington, VA. and James, Bruce

Abstract

Written for students participating in the Close Up government studies program, a week-long field experience in Washington, D.C., the readings in this booklet may be incorporated into social studies units on government, political science, or current events. Following an introduction to members of the Reagan Administration and the Supreme Court and to the key issues of the 98th Congress and the 1983 budget, the booklet is divided into 2 sections. Section 1, focusing on domestic policy issues, includes readings on the economy, environment, education, social welfare, civil rights, energy, urban problems, crime, transportation, agriculture, and immigration. Readings in section 2, foreign policy issues, cover the Soviet Union, defense, nuclear proliferation, international trade, world poverty and U.S. foreign aid, Western Europe, Central America and the Caribbean, China, the Arab-Israeli conflict, South Africa, and Namibia. Each reading selection includes the following components: an introduction to the issue; a list of key questions to focus reading; background, current issues, and future outlook on the issue; and a brief debate on the pros and cons of one key question raised in the reading. (LP)

Published
1983

3. The United States, Japan, and the European Union: comparing political economy approaches to China.

Author

Wan, Ming

Subjects
INTERNATIONAL economic integration, GREAT powers (International relations), INTERNATIONAL relations, ECONOMICS
Abstract

This paper examines US, Japanese, and European political economy approaches to China, and their effect on US-Japan and US-EU relationships. Great powers with a greater security concern in dealing with another major country care more about power while those with less of a concern are preoccupied with calculations for wealth. China's rise and its actions have posed a far greater security challenge to the United States and Japan and are driving the two countries closer together. The political economy game involving China reveals a dominant welfare motive among the advanced market economies. The ambition to transform China politically has diminished. China's integration into the global market makes a relative gains approach difficult to implement. Globalization simply limits the ability of a state to follow a politics-in-command approach in the absence of actual military conflict, which explains why the political economy approaches of the United States, Europe, and Japan are not that different in the scheme of things. China's own grand strategy to reach out to the world to outflank the US-Japan alliance has also contributed to a divergent European policy toward China although there are severe limitations to Beijing's ability to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007
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4. Nixon: Determined to Make a Difference.

Subjects
LEADERSHIP, ECONOMIC stabilization, INTERNATIONAL relations, RECONCILIATION, DEVALUATION of currency, WAR powers, UNITED States politics & government, 1969-1974, ECONOMICS, INTERNATIONAL cooperation
Abstract

The article features U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon and his great achievements during his presidency, particularly in 1971. It says that Nixon's determination in making a difference helps the country reach its economic stability and strengthened international affairs. It mentions several factors that marked Nixon's leadership and proved worthy to be called the Man of the Year, including his dialogue with China to withdraw their combat troops in war, fixation of the economic control of the government, and devaluation of dollar in monetary policy through the world market. Moreover, another goal of the president is to achieve reconciliation including the rapprochement with China, the U.S.-Soviet Union relations, and the war against Vietnam.

Published
1972