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China EVOLUTION OF FOREIGN POLICY
Understanding the origins and forces shaping China's foreign
policy provides a framework in which to view both the changes and
the continuities in Chinese foreign policy from 1949 to the late
1980s. The origins of China's foreign policy can be found in its
size and population, historical legacy, worldview, nationalism, and
Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought. These factors have combined
with China's economic and military capabilities, governmental
structure, and decision-making processes to make certain foreign
policy goals prominent: security, sovereignty and independence,
territorial integrity and reunification, and economic development.
Data as of July 1987
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