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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Chinese leaders"”.
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Social and academic synergies in MIT's Mechanical Engineering department for empowering twentieth-century Chinese leaders
… MIT? Based on information from the 1931 MIT Chinese Students' Directory, which provides data on Chinese students from 1877 to 1930, Chinese students' social and academic presence at MIT was quantified, and efforts were made to identify their research advisors and academic mentors, and also to …
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U.S. Foreign Policy toward Sino-U.S. Rappraochement in the Early 1970s : A Study of Secrecy in Bureaucratic Politics.
… in the early 1970s. It was Nixon's presidential leadership that drove the new China initiative, together with Kissinger as a skilful operator and negotiator. The centralization of power in the White House and the exclusion of the State Department from the direct decision-making process was a …
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The People's Republic of China's Preeminent Power Ambitions: An Assessment of Its Maritime Efforts
… memories that help form policy to this day. Chinese leaders persist in their declaration that China will again reign as the preeminent power in Asia and thus become a major power in a multipolar world. In contemporary history, lessons learned from the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1991 Gulf …
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Hypersonic Hype: An Analysis of the Emerging Sino-American Arms Race in the Pacific
… and the resultant increase in the influence of Chinese leaders on international affairs. The transformation of China into a global superpower in the past two decades has some American officials calling for drastic increases in American military spending to develop new warfighting capabilities …
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China's Education Reforms: Strategic Implications
… product of deliberate policy on the part of the Chinese government. These reforms will affect four strategic aspects of China's national power: its economy, internal stability, soft power, and military. In economic terms, China's economy stands to benefit by transitioning to a knowledge economy, …
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Sino-Soviet border clashes of 1969 and its implications on the making of U.S. foreign policy.
… Nixon administration made it possible for the Chinese leaders to begin a major reorientation of its foreign relations with the U.S. The impact of Sino-Soviet tensions on the moves toward rapprochement was taken by both Beijing and Washington and Nixon managed to reestablish a new relationship …
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Tainted perceptions: Liberal-democracy and American popular images of China
… ambivalent cross-cultural atmosphere toward the Chinese for the next half decade. When Chinese leaders decided to undertake military exercises in the Taiwan Strait in mid-1995, America's perception of the PRC swung even further in a distinctly negative direction; an event that marked the outset …
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Nationalism and Common Prosperity: The Impact of Ideological Symbiosis on Redistributive Preferences in China
… recent decades. This dissertation asks: Does the Chinese government leverage nationalism to divert attention from inequality? Is economic inequality positively associated with nationalism? And are nationalists less likely to support government redistribution? To address these questions, I develop …
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From balance of power to regional collectivism : China and Asia-Pacific economic cooperation
… there is a tendency for China to do so. The Chinese government and leaders' desire to turn China into an economically developed country has been the most important reasons for the Chinese government to devote more attention to the development of regional economic cooperation in the …
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Developmental Processes Critical to the Formation of Servant Leaders in China
… the leader formation process in general, servant leadership formation in particular, and the application to crossing cultures, with China as the primary context. The central problem of this study revolves around leader formation . What events, experiences, people and other formative processes …
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The Chinese in the Philippine economy, 1898-1941 : a study of their business achievements and limitations
… in the growing economy. An evolving ethnic Chinese minority was both a product of and contributor to the growth process. Across the community, there was a general pattern of upward mobility, achieved mainly during the 1910s and 1920s when many were able to exploit niches emerging especially …
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The Chinese in the Philippine economy, 1898-1941 : a study of their business achievements and limitations
… in the growing economy. An evolving ethnic Chinese minority was both a product of and contributor to the growth process. Across the community, there was a general pattern of upward mobility, achieved mainly during the 1910s and 1920s when many were able to exploit niches emerging especially …
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Cross-Cultural Leadership Development in China
… dissertation focuses on Western cross-cultural leadership development initiatives in China. The aim of the study is to understand and improve the practice of Western enterprises conducting business in the Chinese market. The research approach adopted included a qualitative exploratory interview …
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A regional approach to American foreign policy : the South Asian experience.
… policies generated by Soviet, American, and Chinese leaders have been dictated by their geopolitical, strategic competition for power and influence among the lesser states. Geopolitical conflict has been superimposed on regional conflicts around the globe. South Asia's tragic legacy of strife …
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The People's Republic of China and her relations with the countries of the association of Southeast Asian nations : 1969-1975
… nuTually antagonistic and exclusivet the Chinere leaders are nevertheless at te mi ting to oring them iirco a coherent policy under Mao's theory of tve {hniity of op-nosites," vhich believes that it is -possible to reconcile these co-posing tendencies into a dynamic enuibrium through vhich both …
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A Chinese exploration of Sino-Soviet relations since the death of Stalin, 1953-1989.
… The most important reason was that the Soviet leaders wanted to make use of the Chinese Communist Party to maintain their leading position in the socialist camp and the world Communist movement. For the Chinese, the main reason was economic rather than political. They wanted to obtain as much …