Zhao offers a quick history of China's foreign policy since 1949 and then offers a provocative assessment of it today.
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Video: Suisheng Zhao on The Dragon Roars Back, China's Foreign Policy

Zhao offers a quick history of China's foreign policy since 1949 and then offers a provocative assessment of it today.
Q&A with Fu Hongxing, Director of "Mr. Deng Goes to Washington"

Watch the Q&A session with director Fu Hongxing following the screening of his new documentary that delves into the lesser known details of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s historic trip to the United States in 1979.
U.S. Department of State, "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Volume XIII"
The U.S. Dept of State Office of the Historian's "Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)" series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
Deng Xiaoping, "Sino-American relations must be improved," Dec. 10, 1989
Excerpts from a talk with Brent Scowcraft, National Security Advisor for Pres. George H.W. Bush. From Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, v. 3.
Deng Xiaoping, "The U.S. should take the initiative in putting an end to the strains in Sino-American relations," Oct. 31, 1989
Excerpt from remarks Deng made to former President Richard Nixon in Beijing.
Tiananmen Square Document 25: Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 10, 1989, China: Mixed Signals on Purge, 1989
This document explores the meaning of Xiaoping's speech, and also reports that Chinese authorities continue to round up suspected "counterrevolutionaries." (June 10, 1989)
Deng Xiaoping, "Interview with Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes," Sept. 2, 1986
As abridged in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, v. 3.
Deng Xiaoping, "Our principled position on the development of Sino-U.S. relations," Jan. 4, 1981
Excerpts of remarks Deng made to Senator Theodore Stevens (R-Alaska) and Anna Chennault, vice chair of the Presidential Export Commission. Included in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, V. 2.
Jimmy Carter and Deng Xiaoping, Exchange of Comments and Toasts at the White House, Jan. 29, 1979

Deng Xiaoping made the first state visit by a Chinese leader to the U.S. January 28-February 5, 1979.
Zbigniew Brzezinski meeting with Deng Xiaoping, May 21, 1978
U.S. National Security Advisor Zbignew Brzezinski visited Beijing in May 1978. This is a transcript of his meeting with Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing). This transcript was top secret until declassified.
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