Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall concluded that "the significance of Soviet armed forces as a tool of diplomacy has loomed larger." Harvard Political Scientist Samuel Huntington agrees, noting that "detente has been dying for a very long time. What we are witnessing now is the final nail being driven into the coffin." Says Duke University Political Scientist Ole Holsti: "The invasion of Afghanistan has driven home the fact, more than anything since World War II, that whatever the Soviets mean by detente, or anything else, they are prepared to take hard action where they view the opportunity with a relatively low risk...
...Peking have a common interest in blocking Soviet expansion in Asia. Brown then is to sound out his hosts on ways in which their two countries might work more closely toward this goal. A tighter Washington-Peking relationship is not without significant hazards. Duke's Holsti warns against any substantial military assistance to Peking, and says: "The danger is in thinking that because the Chinese and Soviets obviously have poor relations with each other, we therefore share all of the common interests with the Chinese. We don't." Administration analysts who have observed Soviet anger at every stage...
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