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1 George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft,
A World Transformed (New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1998), 93–94.
2 Taiwan Relations Act, Public Law 96-8, §
3.1.
3 Joint Communiqué Issued by the Governments of the
United States and the People’s Republic of China (August 17, 1982),
as printed in Alan D. Romberg, Rein In at the
Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC
Relations (Washington, D.C.: Henry L. Stimson Center, 2003),
243.
4 Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Strait Talk: United States–Taiwan Relations and the Crisis
with China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009),
151.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid., 148–50.
7 John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold
War: A New History (New York: Penguin, 2005), 213–14, note
43.
8 Hu Yaobang, “Create a New Situation in All Fields
of Socialist Modernization—Report to the 12th National Congress of
the Communist Party of China: September 1, 1982,” Beijing Review 37 (September 13, 1982):
29.
9 Ibid., 30–31.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Charles Hill, “Shifts in China’s Foreign Policy:
The US and USSR” (April 21, 1984), Ronald Reagan Presidential
Library (hereafter RRPL), 90946 (Asian Affairs Directorate,
NSC).
13 Directorate of Intelligence, Central
Intelligence Agency, “China-USSR: Maneuvering in the Triangle”
(December 20, 1985), RRPL, 007-R.
14 “Memorandum to President Reagan from Former
President Nixon,” as appended to Memorandum for the President from
William P. Clark, re: Former President Nixon’s Trip to China
(September 25, 1982), RRPL, William Clark Files, 002.
15 George P. Shultz, Turmoil
and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993), 382.
16 Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at Fudan University in
Shanghai, April 30, 1984,” Public Papers of
the Presidents of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1986), book 1, 603–8; “Remarks to
Chinese Community Leaders in Beijing, April 27, 1984,” Public Papers of the Presidents of the United
States, book 1, 579–84.
17 Donald Zagoria, “China’s Quiet Revolution,”
Foreign Affairs 62, no. 4 (April 1984):
881.
18 Jonathan Spence, The Search
for Modern China (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999),
654–55.
19 Nicholas Kristof, “Hu Yaobang, Ex-Party Chief in
China, Dies at 73,” New York Times
(April 16, 1989), http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/16/obituaries/hu-yaobang-ex-party-chief-in-chinadies-at-73.
html?pagewanted=1.
20 Christopher Marsh, Unparalleled Reforms (New York: Lexington, 2005),
41.
21 Richard Baum, Burying Mao:
Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1994), 231–32.