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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How Did China Start to Use Switzerland as a Hub for Its Activities?
China opens up an embassy in burn and switzerland. It's not necessarily inevitable at that point that kind of china starts using sw Switzerland as some sort of centre of economic, political, et cetera work. So why and how did china start to use this embassy in barne as a hub for its activities? This is a really good question, and it's difficult to answer, because what we're missing right now is access to files that tell us more about the discussions among the chinese leaders in 19 forty nine or 19 50.
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