
By Nicholas Khoo
ISBN-10: 0231150784
ISBN-13: 9780231150781
Using Chinese-language fabrics published because the finish of the chilly conflict, Khoo revises current reasons for the termination of China's alliance with Vietnam, arguing that Vietnamese cooperation with China's chilly conflict adversary, the Soviet Union, used to be the required and adequate reason for the alliance's termination. He reveals substitute causes to be much less persuasive. those emphasize nonmaterial factors, resembling ideology and tradition, or reference concerns in the Sino-Vietnamese courting, equivalent to land and border disputes, Vietnam's therapy of its ethnic chinese language minority, and Vietnam's try to determine a sphere of effect over Cambodia and Laos.
Khoo additionally provides to the controversy over the relevance of realist idea in examining China's overseas habit in the course of either the chilly struggle and post-Cold battle eras. whereas others see China as a social nation pushed by means of nonmaterial techniques, Khoo makes the case for viewing China as a essential neorealist country. From this attitude, the point of interest of neorealist idea on protection threats from materially more desirable powers explains China's international coverage not just towards the Soviet Union but in addition when it comes to its Vietnamese allies.