ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on China’s relations with Africa, Europe, South America, Australasia and the Pacific islands states. It examines how Mao Zedong’s revolutionary radicalism shaped China’s foreign policy in the early Cold War, and how, in response to increasing tensions with the Soviet Union, China sought to displace Soviet communism in the Third World. The end of the Cultural Revolution then ushered in a new era in China’s engagement with the world. Finally, the chapter explores how China’s policymakers envisaged and crafted a new post-Cold War role for China in international affairs.
