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The Middle East in China's Foreign Policy, 1949-1977
The Middle East in China's Foreign Policy, 1949-1977
By Yitzhak Shichor
Cambridge University Press, 1979, 268 pp

One of the first comprehensive accounts of China's policy in the Middle East. It documents the shift in the 1970s away from support of "liberation movements" to support of opposition to Soviet expansion.

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