Communist China's economic growth and foreign trade: implications for U.S. policy c.2

This book is one in a series on The United States and China in World Affairs being published by the Council on Foreign Relations as part of a three-year program, begun in 1962 under a generous grant from the Ford Foundation. This program com prises studies and publications arranged by the Council to en courage more active and better informed public consideration of one of the most important areas of foreign policy with which the United States must deal.

The Council's program, which has been guided by a Steering Committee under the chairmanship of Allen W. Dulles, does not aspire to produce a single and simple set of conclusions. The phenomenon of China's role in the world, including the ques tion of Taiwan, is far too complex for that. Each study in this series therefore constitutes a separate and self-contained inquiry written on the responsibility of its author, who has reached his own judgments and conclusions regarding the sub ject of his investigation and its implications for United States policy. The authors include persons with a variety of back grounds in Chinese affairs and foreign policy. Some have had long personal experience in China. Others have studied China and Far Eastern problems during recent years or dealt with them as officials and administrators. They represent a variety of viewpoints, and each author has been able to consult from time to time with a group of individuals invited by the Council on Foreign Relations to meet with him.