ABSTRACT
The chapter shows, how China adjusted its transnational policies in the course of the reform era. It looks at the People's Republic of China's (PRC's) interactions with the Third World and then at its relations with "fraternal" communist party-states in the bloc. The PRC has, under the foreign policy adjustments of the reform era, reached its international apogee. Until Tiananmen prompted a revision of its national agenda, China seemed well on the way to successful adaptation to the newly emerging regional and international realities. China's international status reached new heights, despite the country's still modest level of economic and technological advancement. China's identification with the Communist bloc was a way of adopting an international patron, developmental model, and support group: Mao remarked at the time that "the Soviet Union's today is China's tomorrow". The chapter discusses the winter of 1989-1990, thawing relations, normalization, international relations, Sino-Russian relations, Sino-American relations and Sino-Japanese relations.
