Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friendships dating back to his residence there as U.S. envoy in the mid-1970s. The entire basis of the relationship between the U.S. and China, which was founded on mutual distrust of the Soviet Union, is changing as Gorbachev prepares to visit Beijing in May for a summit with Deng Xiaoping. Yet there was no indication that Bush spelled out American rethinking of where the relationship goes from here. Nor was he prepared to touch on any ticklish trade and security issues in a six-hour visit to South Korea on Monday before winging home...
...goes well, the year's most spectacular photo opportunity will present itself in May, when Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing. But this will be much more than a photo-op. Such a summit would formally end an important advantage enjoyed by the U.S. since Richard Nixon visited China in 1972: Washington could talk to the leadership in both Beijing and Moscow, but ; there was no high-level dialogue between the Soviets and the Chinese and virtually no significant contact at lower levels...
Nonetheless, the United States should not fear the ending of its monopoly of Big Three summit dialogue. Sino-American relations are now firmly based on mutual interests that go far beyond a common attitude toward Moscow. Gorbachev and Deng will not emerge from a summit ideologically reunified or recommitted to joint support of subversion. In the Third World, Marxism has lost its attractiveness as an ideology and an economic theory; men calling themselves Marxists openly discuss what they can learn from capitalist societies like South Korea. However, even as the socialist economies liberalize, the fundamental disagreements still exist between...
Gorbachev and Deng have the ability to reduce tensions significantly in Asia. Two legacies of the past should be at the top of their agenda. In both cases the U.S. can play an important role...
With one leader nearing the end of his historic era and the other encumbered by domestic problems, there is some uncertainty about the permanence of what Deng and Gorbachev decide. But in foreign policy, these two men still talk with the greatest authority. They have it in their power not only to end formally a long period of hostility but also to make an enormous contribution to peace. It may be too early to hail a new era in Asia. But the good news is that an event that would have caused waves of concern from New Delhi to Washington...