1. For a synopsis of China’s views and policy toward Taiwan, see Robert G. Sutter, Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010), chapter 7.
2. Ibid. The more popular view is that the United States changed its position when Mao’s forces defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s armies and established the People’s Republic of China See John W. Garver, Foreign Relations of the Peoples Republic of China (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993), p. 50 for a discussion of this.
3. A. Doak Barnett, Communist China and Asia: A Challenge to the United States (New York: Vintage Books, 1960), p. 77. Barnett says that fostering revolution throughout Asia, which some others said was his first objective, was a lower priority.
4. Kuo-kang Shao, Zhou Enlai and the Foundations of Chinese Foreign Policy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1966), pp. 180–81.
5. Samuel S. Kim, “Taiwan and the International System: The Challenge of Legitimation,” in Robert G. Sutter and William R. Johnson (eds.), Taiwan in World Affairs (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), p. 149. Kim calls the context a zero-sum one.