60 (2) Transcript of Premier Zhou Enlai’s interview with the Burmese government’s labour inspection group, 20 May 1953, in the archives of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, file number 105-00110-01.
61(3) Tao Wenzhao, “Embargo and Anti-embargo: A Serious Struggle in U.S.-China Relations in the 1950s,” Chinese Social Science, No. 3, 1997. For a more detailed discussion of this issue, see Cui Pi, “The U.S. Cold War Strategy and the Paris Coordinating Committee and the China Commission (1945-1994),” Zhonghua Shubai, 2005.
62(4) Cai Chengxi: “Rice for Rubber: China-Tin Trade in the 1950s”, Studies in Contemporary Chinese History, No. 3, 2008.
63(5) “KMT Aggression in Burma,” 1950-1953, National Archives of Myanmar, 12/6-499.
64(6) “Telegram From American Embassy in Rangoon to the Department of State,” December 30, 1953, RG 59, General Records of Department of State, Central Decimal File, 1950-1954, Box 5538, National Archive II, College Park, MD.
65(7)Ian Brown,Burma’s Economy in the Twentieth Century,Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,2013,p.103;Michael W. Charney, A History of Modern Burma, pp. 83-84.
66(8) Richard Butwell, U Nu of Burma, p. 173; Chi-shad Liang, Burma’s Foreign Relations: Neutralism in Theory and Practice, p.78; Matthew Foley, The Cold War and National Assertion in Southeast Asia: Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948-62, pp.132-133.
67(9) As early as the end of August 1952, in order to suppress accusations of pro-British and American tendencies from various domestic forces and to show the Burmese public that China and Burma had friendly relations, U Nu invited Zhou Enlai to visit Burma. Zhou accepted the invitation, but said he would not be able to do so until after the end of the Korean War. See “Prime Minister on Foreign Policy Reply to Debate in Parliament, 1952”, 1952, National Archives of Myanmar, 12/9-25; “Review of U.S. Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations”, 1952, National Archives of Myanmar, 12/9-22.
68(1) Biography of Zhou Enlai, Vol. 3, Central Literature Press, 1998, pp. 1153-1156; Mao Zedong’s Annual Genealogy (1949-1976), Vol. 2, Central Literature Press, 2013, pp. 254, 317-318, 321-323; Li Qiangyu, “Examining the 1954 Mutual Visits of the Prime Ministers of China, India, and China and Myanmar,” in Nanyang Issue Research, 2013, no. 4.
69(2) Strictly speaking, ideology is also part of the national interest in the broad sense of the term. However, for the sake of narrative convenience, many scholars have discussed the two separately, as is the case in this paper.
70 (3) Geopolitical factors can become both a bond that brings the two countries closer together and an obstacle that is not conducive to building strategic mutual trust, as in the case of China-Myanmar relations.
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