In the 1950s and 1960s, the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) not only distrusted, but also feared, the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s assertion to be peace-loving. The reason was that the PRC used its peacefulness claim to negotiate whether the ROC or the PRC should represent ‘China’ in the United Nations, based on a specific definition of ‘peacefulness’ and on the socialist World Peace Movement as a platform of public diplomacy and international networking. This explains a function of the PRC’s peacefulness claim in the Cold War and rewrites the chronology of the PRC’s gradual United Nations entry.
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Forster, E. (2021). Threatened by peace: the PRC’s peacefulness rhetoric and the ‘China’ representation question in the United Nations (1949–71). Cold War History, 21(4), 411–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2019.1678028
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