| According to the fundamental tenets of historical materialism, starting from studying the declassified documents from the Unites States Government, using the materialist dialectics of Marxism and the traditional demonstration analysis on History as the basic means of researches, and making use of History, International Politics and International Economics, this thesis explores the relations between American containment strategies and Sino-Japanese trade in a thorough-going way.This thesis researches American policy towards Sino-Japanese trade during early Cold War as a whole, in particular, explores that the private sectors in Japan and the Chinese side made great efforts to break through American economic blockage to China. On the one hand, U.S. controlled Sino-Japanese trade strictly, on the other hand, both Japanese and Chinese sides did everything possible to promote the bilateral trade relations. Although Sino-Japanese trade relations were baffled under the influence of American Cold War policy, the four private trade agreements concluded by the two parties contributed to the development of the relations. The purpose of these discussions is to give prominence to the relations between the political affairs and the economic affairs, and the important effect of the politics on the economics in the international relations.This thesis is composed of five parts. The first part is the introduction, which describes the present situations of the academic researches about U.S. and Sino-Japanese trade relations briefly and shows clearly that the scholars'opinions at home and abroad don't study American policies toward Sino-Japanese trade in depth, but also don't see Japan and China responded to U.S. control policy and they fought for the policy, mainly including the Japanese behave propelling Sino-Japanese private trade and the political struggle on Sino-Japanese trade problems between Japan and U.S. Moreover, the academic value and realistic roles of the study are introduced in this part.The main body of the thesis is from the second part (the first chapter) to the fourth part (the third chapter). The first chapter discusses U.S. and Sino-Japanese trade relations before the Korean War, explores the early policy toward Sino-Japanese trade of Truman Administration, the expectation of the Japanese society to China market, the trade increase between Japan and China, and the different views to commerce with China in the U.S. inside, and indicates that U.S. permitted the Japanese to develop the limited trade with China with the control of Sino-Japanese trade. The second chapter expatiates that American economic war toward China and Sino-Japanese trade relations after the Korean War broke out, probes respectively into strict American trade control policy toward China, both the Japanese and Chinese effort of breaking U.S. economic blockade and U.S., Japan and the making of CHINCOM, and believes that American economic war toward China and controlling Sino-Japanese trade severely made the negative influence on U.S. and Japan. The third chapter analyzes Eisenhower Administration policy toward Sino-Japanese trade, focusing on study its early policy toward Sino-Japanese trade, American obscure position on Sino-Japanese trade and the development of the trade relations, and U.S. returning to the strict position of controlling Sino-Japanese trade and the end of the Sino-Japanese fourth private trade agreement, and proposes that there was a posture showing from the tight to loose, and then from the loose to the tight about the Eisenhower Administration control toward Sino-Japanese trade, and the trade relations had a corresponding change.The last part of this thesis is the conclusion, which generalizes the different features of American policy toward Sino-Japanese trade on every stage, shows the continuous American control finally made the Chinese market had no important effect on the Japanese economic recovery; U.S. had to open its market to Japan, and paid the great economic price for its actions. |
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