Sino-Soviet Relations in 1980's

Trade in Equipment and Capital Quality: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Split

April 3, 2011 Abstract How does access to imported capital goods affect the quality of investment in poor countries? From 1949 to 1957, China imported most of its industrial plants from the Soviet Union, but in the late 1950s a series of political disputes ended their trading relationship. In 1960, China entered a period of autarky which persisted until 1978. In market settings, closure to capi...

Irredentism, the Diaoyu Islands, and Sino-Japanese Relations

1 “ Sino - Japanese relations and Ballistic Missile Defence ”

Since December 1998, the Japanese government has formally committed itself to undertake cooperative technological research with the US into Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD). Japanese government policy-makers stress that the BMD project remains at present purely at the research stage, and that separate government decisions will be necessary before any progression towards the stages of development...

Sino-Indian Relations ―From Hostility to Mutual Cooperation and Complementation

1.1 The changes in bilateral political and diplomatic relations India gained its independence from being a colony of Great Britain in 1947. The People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949. The next year, in 1950, the Indian and Chinese governments established diplomatic relations, and India was the first country outside the socialist block to recognize the People’s Republic of China. As a re...

Polish-Soviet Relations 1944-1989: The Limits of Autonomy

Any attempt at presenting the relations between two neighboring countries over the course of almost half a century in a brief paper is a highly hazardous undertaking, and could even be recognized as blatant impudence. In this case, however, the titular relations between Poland the USSR were highly composite, remaining under the extremely strong impact of a centuriesold tradition of animosity an...