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In 1949 Zhou stressed to New China’s diplomats that Chinese diplomacy could not exactly duplicate the pattern set elsewhere, for it was to be the self-conscious extension of China’s own revolutionary experience. It was to incorporate a socialist world view — one which challenged the underlying assumptions of European international law and diplomacy in so far as these had been conceived in the matrix of European imperialism.
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Refer to the text of the 16 points in Edgar Snow, The Long Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1973) pp. 238–49.
See Lowell Dittmer, ‘Chou En-lai and Chinese Politics’, in Edward Feit (ed.) Governments and Leaders: An Approach to Comparative Politics (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978) p. 509.
Allen S. Whiting, The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975) p. 229.
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Keith, R.C. (1989). The ‘Revolutionary Diplomatic Line’ in the Cultural Revolution. In: The Diplomacy of Zhou Enlai. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09890-3_7
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