中間地帶

Chinese

		middle; midway; center middle; midway; center; midst; within; among	region; zone; territory region; zone; territory; land
trad. (中間地帶)		中間	地帶
simp. (中间地带)		中间	地带

Etymology

In 1963, Mao Zedong proposed countering the United States and the Soviet Union (by this point, considered by Mao to have deviated from a pure Marxist-Leninist state) by seeking out what he called "intermediate territories." These were mostly smaller countries who Mao felt could help the PRC counter the influence of the two superpowers. Mao divided the territories in two groups:

Asia, Africa, Latin America
(Eastern) Europe, Canada, Oceana

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhōngjiān dìdài

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥㄐㄧㄢㄉㄧˋ ㄉㄞˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhōngjiān dìdài
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥㄐㄧㄢㄉㄧˋ ㄉㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhongjian dìdài
  - Wade–Giles: chung¹-chien¹ ti⁴-tai⁴
  - Yale: jūng-jyān dì-dài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jongjian dihday
  - Palladius: чжунцзянь дидай (čžunczjanʹ didaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ti⁵¹⁻⁵³ taɪ̯⁵¹/

Noun

中間地帶

"intermediate territories" (PRC's foreign policy approach in the 1960s)

References

Non-Aligned Movement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“兩個中間地帶”, in Mao Zedong‎^[1] (in Mandarin), 15 December 2007 (last accessed), archived from the original on 27 March 2005