ABSTRACT
After more than a hundred years of 'unequal treaties' and imperialist exploitation, the CPR has been understandably sensitive both with regard to its territorial boundaries and to the presence of potentially hostile regimes in neighbouring states. We have seen (Part I), that the Americans have acted on the assumption that China is an expansionist power which can only be restrained by powerful defensive alliances, notably SEAT0 (September 1954)) the US-Japanese Security Treaty (September 195 I), the US-South Korean Alliance (October I 953) and the defensive alliance with Taiwan (December I 954).
