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...They are as different as fire and water," is the saying about the Chinese and Soviet brands of Communism. That incompatibility of elements could not have been more apparent than in Indochina, where Vietnamese troops launched new attacks against insurgents in Cambodia and thus heated up the conflict by proxy between China and the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia...
...most serious obstacles to successful truce making between the two Communist powers, however, seemed highly contemporary. One week before the Moscow talks, with obvious support from the Soviet Union, Viet Nam lashed out with a series of attacks in Cambodia, where troops loyal to deposed Premier Pol Pot, backed by China, have been carrying on a stubborn insurgency...
...times in his presidency, Nixon threw sober calculation to the winds and pressed for a summit. Tormented by antiwar agitators, he thought he could paralyze them by a dramatic peace move. Meeting the Soviet leaders in the wake of our offensive against the sanctuaries in Cambodia might show Hanoi that it could prove expendable in a larger game. He foresaw benefits for the congressional elections in the fall as well. As the year proceeded, what started as a maneuver reached a point of near obsession...
...summitry with the Soviets and Chinese. Included is a section remarkably a propos today: what the U.S. did when the Soviets tried to build a nuclear submarine base in Cuba in 1970. The entire second excerpt concerns what Kissinger caUs the agony of Viet Nam": the unannounced bombing of Cambodia and the attack on the sanctuaries there; the secret negotiations in Paris-how the premature "peace is at hand" statement came to be made; the Christmas bombing; the turmoil caused by antiwar protesters in the U.S.; and the peace agreement. In the final week Kissinger writes of the near confrontation...
...official traveling with Mondale. "But we're at the point where we are considering each other's interests as we pursue our separate policies." Policy disagreements endure over the Chinese invasion of Viet Nam, Peking's support of Pol Pot's deposed regime in Cambodia and China's friendship with North Korea. Still, Mondale was telling his hosts that Washington wants the U.S.-Chinese honeymoon to continue...