1. J. Gittings, The World and China, 1922–1972, p. 260.
2. R. Nixon, US Foreign Policy for the 1970s, p. 2.
3. B. Tuchman, ‘If Mao Had Come to Washington: An Essay in Alternatives’, Foreign Affairs, 51, 1 (Oct. 1972) 44–64.
4. S. Goldstein, ‘Sino-American Relations, 1948–1950: Lost Chance or No Chance?’ in Harding and Yuan (eds), Sino-American Relations, pp. 119–42.
5. See Xue Mouhong et al, Dangdai Zhongguo Waijiao. In this most recent publication of the official history of China’s diplomacy from 1949 to 1986, it is forcefully stated that ‘It is the possibility of an armed intervention in the Chinese Revolution by the imperialist powers that dictated the necessity [for the PRC] to unite with other socialist countries’ (p. 4).