官僚机构、商业事务和冒险行为：冷战初期的中欧贸易关系 :(1952-1957) [Bureaucracy, business and adventure. China-Europe trade relations in early Cold War (1952-1957)]

During the early years of the Cold War, the construction of the dialectics of the two opposing fronts included the building of a system of rules governing East-West economic relations. While a general reshaping of world economy was finding its way in the construction of super-national institutions such as IMF, Bretton Woods agreement, and GATT, on the other hand, the post-WWII worldwide crisis gave the United States the opportunity to establish a system which they could control and which could guarantee a good balance for their economic system. The Truman doctrine and the Marshall Plan (European Reconstruction Plan, ERP) were the fundamental tools to carry out a victorious struggle against the Soviet menace and to establish the predominance of the Free World, as embodied in the American model of civilization. As far as world trade was concerned, the US applied a strategy of economic containment aimed at further dividing the world into NATO and Warsaw Pact members.