President Nixon's intention to visit Peking is attracting tremendous interest all over the world. The present article discusses past developments of US/Chinese trade and its possibilities in the future.

After the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan is the second largest trade partner of the Communist countries as a whole and of the Soviet Union and the largest partner of the People's Republic of China. It has only been in recent years that Japan gained this formidable position in the trade with...

Tripartite cooperation is thought to be of cardinal importance in the ambit of East-West cooperation, at least for the future. An essential reason for this is probably the expectation that it can be used as an instrument of development aid to the benefit of the Third World. Is this expectation...