The Treaty of Peace with Japan and the Korean truce negotiations |
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Authors: | Zhihua Shen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of History, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China |
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Abstract: | The outbreak of the Korean War caused the U.S.A. to become determined in excluding the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from
the Treaty of Peace with Japan, the signing of which is hoped to be hastened by winning the Korean War. Before the signing
of the treaty, the U.S.A. intentionally delayed the Korean truce negotiations in order to prevent the PRC from attending the
San Francisco Peace Conference. After the signing, the U.S.A. preferred an immediate cessation of hostilities in Korea, whereas
the Soviet Union and the PRC, bogged down in the Far East by the terms of the treaty, were determined to take a hard-line
stance, hoping that the U.S.A. would become tied down and drained on the Korean battlefield. Thus, there was a subtle relationship
between the treaty and the negotiations in the context of the Cold War.
Translated by Chen Dan from Shixue Jikan 史学集刊 (Collected Papers of History Studies) 2006, (1): 66–75 |
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Keywords: | the Cold War the Treaty of Peace with Japan the Korean War |
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