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The Restless Years

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Themes from the 70s. A series of ten programmes. 4:Pacific Overtures
Following President Nixon's opening visit to China in 1972, it was Japan which seized the opportunities offered by China's modernisation drive. Mao Tse-tung 's successors looked back on the period of the Cultural Revolution as ' ten lost years ', and determined to transform the country by the year 2000". For this, Japanese technology and investment were essential. The Peace and Friendship Treaty, signed in 1978, brought the two countries still closer together. But each also had other pressing aims -China to build alliances against the Soviet Union, and Japan to secure her world trading empire.
John Tusa looks at the new China-Japan axis against the background of rapid change in the whole Asia-Pacific region. Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY

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Mao Tse-Tung
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John Tusa
Producer:
William Horsley
Source: Radio Times

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