The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence: India and Indochina

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By Allen S. Whiting

University of Michigan Press, 1975, 299 pp

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Whiting combs through recent Chinese military history in search of the underlying principles of action, and finds Chinese policy to be rational; willing to use force but also willing to sacrifice military to political interests; concerned primarily with China's territorial integrity; and stable over time.

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