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The Limits of Alliance: Cold War Solidarity and Canadian Wheat Exports to China, 1950-1963.
- Source :
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Agricultural History . Winter2009, Vol. 83 Issue 1, p29-50. 22p. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC's efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition. Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communist China; mounting anger at Washington, DC'S use of subsidized wheat sales to capture traditional Canadian markets; and a surging sense of Canadian nationalism that sought a distinct role for Canada on the world stage. Clearly, as was so often the case in postwar Canadian foreign economic policy, a narrowly defined national interest easily trumped the ideological pressures of western solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00021482
- Volume :
- 83
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Agricultural History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 36313559
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2008.83.1.29