Part I: Background of Kissinger's Doctrine of Balance of Power in Action 1The Postwar International Environment: The American-Soviet-Chinese Triangle Part II: The Kissinger-Mao Axis 2 Conservatism and the Materialization of the Kissinger-Mao Axis 3 The Kissinger-Mao Axis I: The Integration of Kissinger's Balance-of-Power and Mao's Global Order of Tripolarity: Mao's Ping-Pong Diplomacy 4 The Kissinger-Mao Axis II: Mao's Modernization Revolution and Deng the Successor 5 The Kissiner-Mao Axis III: The Post-Dengist Economic Development: Deng's "Good- Neighborly" Policy and the Rise of China Part III: The Volatile Asia Pacific in the New Century 6 The New American Containment of China Part IV: The Volatile Europe in the New Century 7 The New US-led NATO Containment of the Rising Russia Part V: The New Global Order of Bipolarity of the 21st Century 8 The SCO and Counter-Containment of the West