Moscow, Nauka Publishing House. 1983. 184 p. The analysis of the PRC's policy towards Western European states is reflected in a number of monographs and articles by Soviet researchers .1 However, while special monographic studies have been devoted to China's relations with Great Britain and Germany, 2 the Sino-French relations, which perhaps most clearly revealed the characteristic features of the European policy of the Beijing leadership, have not yet found a comprehensive monographic study. Relations with France are one of the main elements of China's European policy. France's place in China's foreign policy is determined both by the centuries-old traditional ties between the two countries and by the role that Paris plays in the system of international relations. France was the first imperialist State to establish full diplomatic relations with China. At present, China-France relations have a high level of political cooperation, not only on bilateral issues, but also on many fundamental issues of world politics. In the research of T. I. Sulitskaya, a researcher at the Institute of the Far East of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences, the history of relations between Beijing and Paris for more than 30 years of the PRC's existence is analyzed in detail and their specifics, role and place in the system of international relations as a whole are revealed. The study of this problem in the context of the goals and methods of the entire foreign policy strategy of the PRC, and especially in Western Europe, allows us to trace the processes of evo- 1 See, for example, China and the Capitalist Countries of Europe, Moscow, 1976; Koloskov B. T. Foreign Policy of China 1969-1976. Osnovnye faktory i vedushchie tendentsii [Main factors and leading trends], Moscow, 1977; Lomykin V. P. Zapadnaya Evropa v vneshnoi politike Pekin. In the book. International Relations in the Far East in the Post-war Years, vol. 2, Moscow, 1978; Kapitsa M. S. China: Three Decad ... Read more