ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the evolution of Communist China’s foreign policy and its basic foreign policy in the 1980s in particular. As a Communist government, Communist China also has international duties. Its analysis and handling of international affairs are bound to be influenced by its Marxist-Leninist ideology or its world outlook because the ultimate objective of its external activities is to transform the world in line with the designs of Marxism-Leninism. The Chinese Communists regard foreign policy as an "extension of domestic policy" and affirm that changes in domestic affairs may affect foreign policy. The Cultural Revolution was aimed at opposing and preventing revisionism. The Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong’s leadership paid a great deal of attention to ideology, the tactics of revolution, and the power struggle in both domestic and foreign policies. Communist China had shifted the focus of its diplomatic activities to the United States, Japan, and Western Europe.
