The People's Republic of China and the Law of Treaties

From 1949 until the end of the 1960s China concluded nearly 2,000 treaties or agreements with more than seventy states. By the beginning of the 1970s a number of these states accused Communist China of treaty violations, and Communist China charged the United States, the Soviet Union and other powers with breaking international agreements. Accusations of this nature cannot be evaluated without first determining whether or not both sides subscribe to the same law of treaties. This book offers an …