A wide anticommunist arc: Britain, ASEAN, and Nixon's triangular diplomacy

A wide anticommunist arc: Britain, ASEAN, and Nixon's triangular diplomacy

President Richard Nixon’s triangular diplomacy succeeded because a “wide anticommunist arc” of U.S. allies in Southeast Asia had confined the influence of both China and the USSR to the Indochinese states. Beijing and Moscow welcomed détente with Washington in order to accommodate to de facto U.S. h...

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Main Author: NGOEI, Wen-Qing
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
Subjects:
Cold War
Vietnam War
ASEAN
British decolonisation
Five Power Defence Arrangement
Southeast Asia
rapprochement
detente
US empire
Soviet Union
China
Asian Studies
International Relations
Political Science
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3207
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4464/viewcontent/Ngoei_A_Wide_Anticommunist_Arc_Diplomatic_History_2017.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:President Richard Nixon’s triangular diplomacy succeeded because a “wide anticommunist arc” of U.S. allies in Southeast Asia had confined the influence of both China and the USSR to the Indochinese states. Beijing and Moscow welcomed détente with Washington in order to accommodate to de facto U.S. hegemony in the region.

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