Sheng Peng is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for the History of Transformations at the University of Vienna and an associate fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Sheng Peng has written a nuanced and balanced account of the Carter administration's policy toward China and Taiwan. Based on important research in Chinese and American source materials, it will be a crucial work for anyone who wants to understand the dilemmas that the United States faced in dealing with two competing Chinese governments.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Strategic Competition1. The Decline of Détente and the Normalization of US-China Diplomatic Relations2. The China-France Nuclear Alliance and the Failed Comprehensive Test Ban NegotiationPart II. Technological Competition3. Western European Military and Dual-Use Technology Transfers to China4. Chiang Ching-kuo and Taiwan’s Search for SecurityPart III. Ideology5. From Classmates to Enemies: Deng Xiaoping and Chiang Ching-kuo6. The Global Response to Carter’s China Policy: Unheeded Warnings from Moscow to WashingtonConclusion: Multilateral Competition Beyond the Cold WarNotesBibliographyIndex

Sheng Peng is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for the History of Transformations at the University of Vienna and an associate fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Sheng Peng has written a nuanced and balanced account of the Carter administration's policy toward China and Taiwan. Based on important research in Chinese and American source materials, it will be a crucial work for anyone who wants to understand the dilemmas that the United States faced in dealing with two competing Chinese governments.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Strategic Competition1. The Decline of Détente and the Normalization of US-China Diplomatic Relations2. The China-France Nuclear Alliance and the Failed Comprehensive Test Ban NegotiationPart II. Technological Competition3. Western European Military and Dual-Use Technology Transfers to China4. Chiang Ching-kuo and Taiwan’s Search for SecurityPart III. Ideology5. From Classmates to Enemies: Deng Xiaoping and Chiang Ching-kuo6. The Global Response to Carter’s China Policy: Unheeded Warnings from Moscow to WashingtonConclusion: Multilateral Competition Beyond the Cold WarNotesBibliographyIndex