Ariane Knüsel, "China's European Headquarters: Switzerland and China During the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Is the Swiss a Global Hub for Everything China?
In the mid 19 sixties, chinese diplomats began coming to switzerland from China. And for the swiss government, it's just too much - they have almost the highest number of diplomatic staff out of all countries in Switzerland. So that if this is really a problem for theSwiss government, there's just so much movement and it cannot keep track of what the chinese are doing. The only country with more diplomatic staff is the united states.
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