39 (7) Pei Jianzhang, ed., Diplomatic History of the People’s Republic of China (1949-1956), World Knowledge Press, 1994, p. 127.
40(8) “KMT Aggression in Burma,” 1950-1953, National Archives of Myanmar, 12/6-499.
41(1) “Summary of the Chinese Embassy in Burma on China-Myanmar Cultural Relations in the Past Ten Years,” date unknown, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives Collection, File No. 105-00603-02(1).
42 (2) “Chinese Goodwill Mission,” 1951, National Archives of Myanmar, 12/9-19; “To Thakin Nu, “February 8, 1951, in Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, Vol. 15, Part II, pp. 547-550.
43(3) “Chinese Goodwill Mission,” 1951, National Archives of Myanmar, 12/9-19.
44(4) “Burmese Cultural, Art and Education Community Welcomes Our Cultural Delegation,” “Our Cultural and Art Exhibition Opens Grandly in Burma’s Capital,” “Our Cultural Delegation Receives Warm Welcome in Various Parts of Burma,” “My Cultural Delegation Leaves Burma and Returns Home,” People’s Daily, December 18, December 19, December 26, 1951, and January 4, 1952.
45(5) “Complaint made by Chinese Embassy against Chinese Newspaper ‘Freedom Daily News’ and ‘Chin Tribune’,” 1951-1952, National Archives of Myanmar, 15/3(13)-76.
46(6) “Invitation of Representatives of People’s Organization in Burma to Attend Chinese National Day Celebrations to be held on October 11.1951, “1951, National Archives of Myanmar, 15/3(31)43;” Burmese Cultural Mission to China,” 1951, National Archives of Myanmar, 15/3(31)-42.
47(7) “Burmese Cultural Delegation Arrives in Guangzhou, Takes a Bus to Beijing,” “The National Committee of Our People’s Political Consultative Conference Hosted a Burmese Cultural Delegation at a Banquet Yesterday, and the Burmese Cultural Delegation Visited Our Nationalities College and Nationalities Affairs Committee,” “Burmese Cultural Delegation Visits Suburbs of Beijing after Land Reform,” People’s Daily, April 23, May 4, and May 5, 1952.
48 (8) Transcript of a conversation between Director General Chen Jiakang of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and U Bai, Burmese chargé d’affaires in China, on the refusal of the Burmese Government to participate in the San Francisco Peace Conference with Japan, 27 August 1951, in the Archives of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, file No. 105-00088-03; Prithwis Dutta, Neutralism: Theory and Practice, Calcutta: The World Press Private Limited, 1978, pp. 111-113; Renaud Egreteau and Larry Jagan, Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma: Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State, pp.95-96; Richard Butwell, U Nu of Burma, pp.178,188.
49(1) The First Secretary of the Burmese Embassy in China denies that the United States has established a military base in Burma, November 12, 1951, in the Archives of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, File No. 105-00174-02(1).
50(2) “Minutes of Conversation between I.V. Stalin and Zhou Enlai,” September 3, 1952, History and Public Affairs, Chinese Foreign Ministry Archives, No. 105-00174-02(1). Policy Program Digital Archive, APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 329, II. 75-87; Zhou Enlai’s Annals (1949-1976), vol. 1, Central Literature Press, 1997, p. 182.
51(3) Selected Works of Mao Zedong, pp. 1189-1194; Chen Qingquan and Song Guangwei, Biography of Lu Dingyi, Chinese Communist Party History Press, 1999, pp. 340-347.
52(4) Niu Jun, “Reconstructing the ‘Middle Belt’: The Origin of China’s Asian Policy (1949-1955)”, Studies in International Politics, No. 2, 2012.
53 (5) Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ed.: “Comrade Zhou Enlai on Diplomacy”, 1981, pp. 13-29.
54(6) Shen Zhihua, “The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Non-Stalinization and Its Impact on Sino-Soviet Relations – Based on Recently Revealed Archival Documents in Russia”, Studies in Cold War International History, Series 1, East China Normal University Press, 2004, p. 36.
55 (1) Zhou Enlai’s Selected Diplomatic Essays, Central Literature Press, 1990, pp. 58-62.
56(2) U Nu once summarized Burma’s neutralist foreign policy in five aspects: not to ally with any major power group; to live in friendship with all countries; not to accept any conditional economic aid; to deal with international issues independently, objectively and impartially; to promote world peace; and to assist all countries in need. On Burma’s neutrality diplomacy in the early 1950s, see Chi-shad Liang, Burma’s Foreign Relations: Neutralism in Theory and Practice, pp. 62-63; Prithwis Dutta. Neutralism: Theory and Practice, pp. 111-120; Richard Butwell, U Nu of Burma, pp. 173-174.
57(3) Qin Yihui, “Several International Events During the Retreat of Li Mi’s Troops into Burma (1950-1954)”, Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 14, no. 4, December 2002; Kenton Clymer, “The U-nited States and the Guomindang (KMT) Forces in Burma, 1949-1954: A Diplomatic Disaster,” pp. 25-27.
58(4) “Telegram from American Embassy in Rangoon to the Department of State,” May 4, 1951, RG 84, records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State, U.S. Embassy in Burma, Classified General Records, 1950-1952, Box 10, National. Archive II, College Park, MD; “Memorandum of Conversation,” June 20, 1951, RG84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State, U.S. Embassy in Burma, Classified General Records, 1950-1952, Box 10, National Archive II, College Park, MD; “Telegram from American Embassy in Rangoon to the Department of State,” November 28, 1951, RG 84, Records. of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State, U.S. Embassy in Burma, Classified General Records, 1950-1952, Box 10, National Archive II, College Park, MD; Robert H. Taylor, General Ne Win: A Political Biography, pp. 166-167; Kenton Clymer, “The United States’ States and the Guomindang (KMT) Forces in Burma, 1949-1954: A Diplomatic Disaster,” pp. 27-37.
59(1) “Telegram From the Secretary of State to American Embassy in Rangoon,” March 28, 1953, RG 84, records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State, U.S. Embassy in Burma, Top Secret Telegrams, 1951-1954, Box 1, National Archive II, College Park, MD; Maung Aung Myoe, In the Name of Pauk-Phaw: Myanmar’s China Policy Since 1948, pp. 36-37; Richard Butwell, U.S.A. Nu of Burma, pp. 182-183; Matthew Foley, The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma,1948-62,pp.105-106,109-110;Kenton Clymer,“The United States and the Guomindang(KMT)Forces in Burma,1949-1954:A Diplomatic Disaster,”p.39.
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