I hope to show that whilst ideology was an important factor in the conflict, economic imperatives overruled any ideological objections, and as such, economic concerns were the main driving force behind the antagonism between the two superpowers and consequently the main driving force for the historical processes viewed globally throughout the 20th century. I will attempt to map these interrelations through the analysis of Defence sales between Britain and China, primarily that of the Harrier jet, with a view to shedding some light on the basis of the hostility between the competing Cold War nations. On China is a 2011 non-fiction book by Henry Kissinger, former National Security Adviser and United States Secretary of State. The complex interplay between the particular and the universal, between the political and the economic, between ideology and reality, can be seen through the shifting Cold War Sino-British relations as China began on the road to 'modernity'. Yet, as with much of reality, the situation is not one of mere binaries. I attempt to show that the material, that is to say, the economy, gains primacy as a result of superpower hegemony and that most individual states struggle to forge any independent path within the system of Cold war geopolitical relations. This analysis of Cold War politics and culture focuses on the dialectical relationship between security concerns stemming from ideological and geopolitical contingencies, and the contradictory need for increasing accumulation within the capitalist mode of production in the face of apparently irreconcilable ideological positions.
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