| Popis: |
Following its unconditional surrender Japan lost control over its foreign trade to SCAP. Such scrutiny, in addition to the disjunction caused by World War II, brought Japanese trade with China and the Soviet Union to a virtual standstill. A slightly more liberal trading regime appeared from 1947 onwards with the beginnings of the ‘reverse course’. As late as March 1949, official US policy still aimed to ‘augment, through permitting restoration of ordinary economic relations with China, such forces as might operate to bring about serious rifts between Moscow and a Chinese Communist regime.’1 Just two months later, however, Washington extended US export controls to include China—albeit less severe than those imposed on the Soviet Union—and General Headquarters in Tokyo applied these to Sino-Japanese trade.2 |
