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Geopolitics and China's Patronage Strategy The Wary Patron, the Autonomous Client, and the Vietnam War
1.Introduction. 2.Geopolitics, statecraft, and patronage transfers. 3.A theory of patronage transfers in geopolitical competition. 4.Breaking encirclement: China’s patronage transfers amid intense rivalry with the United States, 1964–1966. 5.Pounding with two fists: China’s patronage transfers amid two-pronged intense geopolitical rivalries, 1967–1970. 6.Romantic triangle: China’s patronage transfers amid the Sino-US rapprochement, 1971–1973. 7.Conclusion.
Biography
Dalton Lin is an assistant professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. His articles have appeared in The China Quarterly, Orbis, and Survival. He founded the public-service page Taiwan Security Issues (https://linkedin.com/company/TSIssues).
Dalton Lin’s carefully researched book on Beijing’s support for Vietnam during the Cold War demonstrates that China’s strategic patronage of neighboring countries long predates Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of China’s foreign relations and the Cold War in Asia.
Thomas J. Christensen
James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations
Columbia University
