“Relations between China and the United States need not - and should not - become a zero-sum game ... Key issues on the international front are global in nature. Consensus may prove difficult, but confronation on these issues is self-defeating.” ChinaUsaDiplomacyInternational RelationsSuperpowers And PeaceUs China Relations Book:On China Source: On China
“In other words, each side could arm itself with whatever ideological slogans fulfilled its own domestic necessities, so long as it did not let them interfere with the need for cooperation against the Soviet danger. Ideology would be relegated to domestic management; it took a leave from foreign policy. The ideological armistice was, of course, valid only so long as objectives remained compatible.” PoliticsChinaUsaSoviet UnionInternational RelationsDomestic Politics Book:On China Source: On China