China & Pakistan: Diplomacy of an Entente Cordiale (Foreign Policy Research Institute Books)

518 Pages·1974·1.31 MB·English

by  Anwar Hussain Syed

China & Pakistan : Diplomacy of an Entente
title: Cordiale A Foreign Policy Research
Institute Book
author: Syed, Anwar Hussain.
publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin: 087023160X
print isbn13: 9780870231605
ebook isbn13: 9780585253398
language: English
China--Foreign relations--Pakistan,
subject
Pakistan--Foreign relations--China.
publication date: 1974
lcc: DS740.5.P3S9 1974eb
ddc: 327.51/0549/1
China--Foreign relations--Pakistan,
subject:
Pakistan--Foreign relations--China.
Page i
China & Pakistan
Page ii
Pakistan and adjoining areas
Page iii
China & Pakistan
Diplomacy of an Entente Cordiale
Anwar Hussain Syed
Page iv
Copyright © 1974 by The University of Massachusetts Press
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-93177
Standard Book Number 0-87023-159-6 (cloth)
Standard Book Number 0-87023-160-x (paper)
Printed in the United States of America
Published in Great Britain by Oxford University Press
A Foreign Policy Research Institute Book
Page v
To my wife, Shameem, and our
children Sarah, Sameer, and Amir,
without whose frequent interventions
this book might have appeared sooner
but life would not be so worth living
Page vii
Contents
A Note on Sources xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Introduction 1
2. The Context of Pakistan's China Policy 15
Pakistan and India: A Case of Antagonistic Perceptions 15
Pakistan and the United States 33
Pakistan and the Soviet Union 41
3. The First Beginnings 53
China, SEATO, and Pakistan 54
Bogra and Chou En-lai: Toward a Better Understanding 61
Suhrawardy: A Return to Skepticism 65
Ayub Khan Era: The Initial Phase 74
4. Toward an Entente Cordiale 81
The Border Agreement 82
A Matter of Timing 89
The Air-Travel Agreement 93
The Shadow of a Sino-Pakistan Alliance 97

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Chinese Objectives in South Asia: A Pakistani View 101
A New Look in Pakistani Foreign Policy 105
5. China and the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 109
The Chinese Ultimatum to India 110
The Chinese Impact 116
Chinese Goals and Pakistani Responses 121
Some Unintended Consequences 126
6. The Post-Tashkent Phase 129
China and the Tashkent Agreement 129
From Gilgit to Kashghar: The Karakoram Friendship 134
Highway
Chinese Arms and Economic Assistance 139
Pakistan and the Sino-American Detente 144
China and the Political Upheavals in Pakistan 146
7. Pakistan and China: A Futuristic View 155
The Outlook for an Indo-Pakistan Rapprochement 156
Limitations of a Military Deterrent 160
Pakistan and Her Muslim Neighbors 163
The United States and Southern Asia 165
The Soviet Union and Southern Asia 170
Pakistan and China: A Prognosis 174