Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China. The General Administration of Intelligence operates mostly in Asia, Africa and in centers of Overseas Chinese. Technologically weak, but sound on analysis. Especially concerned with Soviet industrial development in Siberia...
...weeks testified to China's new eagerness to shore up its worldwide diplomatic position. Main reason: the outbreak of war between Viet Nam and Cambodia in December has disrupted what until recently seemed a successful effort by the Chinese to win new friends and influence throughout Southeast Asia at the expense of the Soviets. Peking's inability to prevent the fighting between its Indochinese neighbors has been a serious foreign policy failure, and in some ways its struggle to stay friends with two smaller and mutually hostile allies mirrors Moscow's recent history on the Horn...
...politics." Now Peking fears that its deteriorating relations with Viet Nam will push Hanoi further into the embrace of Moscow. Worst of all, if the Vietnamese were to rout the Cambodians, a Kremlin-manipulated puppet regime could emerge in Phnom-Penh and tilt the balance of power in Southeast Asia in Moscow's favor...
Trying to salvage Peking's diplomatic drive elsewhere in Southeast Asia, Vice Premier Teng took off for a six-day visit to Burma, a country vital to China's security. Dwarfed by his entourage of 70 officials, the diminutive (5 ft.) Teng told Burmese President Ne Win that "China and Burma are linked by common borders, share common rivers and mountains and have been friendly since ancient times." Indeed, Burma is a model neighbor, resisting Soviet influence at home, while carrying on delicate good-will talks with ten neighboring states, with Peking's enthusiastic approval. As Teng...
...film-making niceties as it is of its subject. Com pany C was shot in the flat light one associates with porno films; its often incomprehensible plot contains more credibility gaps than a William West moreland press briefing. Though Furie staged much of the film on location in Asia, the Viet Nam he re-creates is as placid as the Hollywood he built for Gable and Lombard. Even the sting of death is absent: this may be the first war movie ever to climax with a ponderous soccer match instead of a battle...