%0 Journal Article
%T AMERICAN BUSINESS AND NORMALIZATION OF US-CHINA COMMERCIAL RELATIONS, 1979¨C1980
%A Kailai Huang
%J Essays in Economic & Business History
%D 2005
%I The Economic & Business History Society
%X Building a strategic alignment against the Soviet Union was in the late 1960s the driving force behind Sino-American rapprochement. In 1978 Cold War politics prompted the Carter administration to recognize the People¡¯s Republic. In 1979¡ª80 military and strategic cooperation dominated Sino-Amthcan relations; economic and cultural ties were secondary. Yet growing trade and cultural exchanges were useful means for broadening the basis of the relationship and generating a perception of progress.
%U http://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/journal/article/view/64