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Foundations of Chinese Foreign Policy

The foundational speeches, reports, treaties, and other documents which have defined and gave shape to the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China since 1949, from Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping and beyond. (Image: Mao Tse-tung, half-length portrait, seated, facing Nikita Khrushchev, during the Russian leader's 1958 visit to Peking.)

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