“Casting a Shadow” Over Trade: The Problem of Private Claims and Blocked Assets in U.S.-China Relations, 1972–1975.

The article focuses on diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China (PRC) during the period of 1972 to 1975; specifically, the failure to resolve issues associated with the PRC's refusal to honor claims regarding private American property seized by the PRC and the resulting U.S. Treasury's freeze of PRC assets. The article considers the pre-existing U.S. relations with Taiwan, political stability in China, the effects of the Cold War and related U.S. and PRC attitudes towards to Soviet Union, the Vietnam War, both of the U.S. administrations of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Chinese leaders Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong.