Gasster, MichaelRatliff, William Elmore2019-09-282019-09-28196819647393http://hdl.handle.net/1773/44587Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 1968Although Chinese Communist interest in Latin America during the 1949-1960 period was overwhelmingly political, formal political contacts were almost nonexlstanto Chinese trade relations were generally politically motlvated, but these too were very limited and with few exceptions of little significance. Chinese political interests in Latin America during these years were promoted primarily through her pol- icy of cultural dlplomacy.113 leavesenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/China--Foreign opinion, Latin American || China--Foreign relations--Latin America || China || Latin America || Diplomatic relationsThesis--Far EasternThesis