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Osaka University Law Review. 2021, 68, p. 39-56

Making China a Great Power : A Reconsideration of Franklin D. Rooseveltʼs Postwar Vision of East Asia

Takahashi, Keikichi

Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University

英語

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2021-02

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Cordell Hull, Secretary of State of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, states in his memoir that during the Second World War, the United States sought to build China up “as a major power entitled to equal rank with the three big Western Allies, Russia, Britain, and the United States.” Francis Spellman, the Archbishop of New York, wrote in a memorandum, as a record of a conversation with Roosevelt in 1943, “It is planned to make an agreement among the Big Four. Accordingly, the world will be divided into spheres of influence: China gets the Far East; the U.S. the Pacific; Britain and Russia, Europe and Africa.” This paper examines Rooseveltʼs postwar vision of East Asia and clarifies that neither Hullʼs memoir nor Spellmanʼs memorandum reflects Rooseveltʼs plan accurately. It is true that Roosevelt sought to make China one of “the Big Four.” However, he positioned it not as an equal but a junior partner that, he expected, would support the United States in maintaining international order of East Asia. This paper argues that Rooseveltʼs postwar vision was to make East Asia an American sphere of influence and expand American hegemony geographically ̶ from the Western Hemisphere through the Pacific to East Asia.

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Making China a Great Power : A Reconsideration of Franklin D. Rooseveltʼs Postwar Vision of East Asia

Takahashi, Keikichi

Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University

英語

2021-02

Osaka University Law Review

68

39

56

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/78531