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Past Event
In-Person
Seminar

Comrades Plus Brothers: Security Cooperation in Chinese Foreign Policy and the Sino-Vietnamese Partnership

Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

This presentation will explore the range of security cooperation behaviors between states and investigate the factors that account for variation in China’s security partnerships. 

For more information, contact susan_lynch@hks.harvard.edu 

Date: Time: - Location: One Brattle Square, 350

Speaker
Eleanor Freund

Mao Zedong and Ho Chi-Minh
Communist Vietminh President Ho Chi-Minh is shown at the Beijing airport in Peking, China in July 1955, just before leaving for home after a tour of Red China and the Soviet Union. With Ho is Red China’s Premier Mao Tse-Tung on one of rare appearances in public. The two children being held by Ho had just presented him with flowers which were held by an aide who is out of the picture. He praised the Soviet Union and Red China as “friendly countries” that had helped Vietminh with money and materials.

Speaker: Eleanor Freund, Research Fellow, International Security Program

This presentation will explore the range of security cooperation behaviors between states and investigate the factors that account for variation in China’s security partnerships. It will offer a conceptual framework for understanding the differences in security cooperation relationships and advance a theory explaining China’s choices between these different types of security cooperation. Sino-Vietnamese cooperation (and conflict) during the First and Second Indochinese Wars will be analyzed as empirical evidence supporting the proposed theory.

Admittance is on a first come–first served basis.  Tea and Coffee Provided.