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...Soviets announced a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan, scheduled to end next week. The third obstacle, Kampuchea, has proved somewhat less tractable, with the future role of pro-Vietnamese and pro-Chinese political factions inside the country still clouded in uncertainty. But progress has been sufficient to inspire a Deng-Gorbachev dialogue...
...Deng-Gorbachev summit will have a daunting list of issues to resolve before any grand hopes for an era of good feeling in the Far East are realized. Working out details of a new government order in Kampuchea will be difficult enough. Larger dreams of transforming Indochina from "a battlefield to a marketplace" or reconciling North and South Korea lie well in the future. But the 1.4 billion people of the Soviet Union and China have good cause for some quiet celebration. At the very least, they can mark the beginning of the end of a dark...
...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...