Word: kampuchea
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...flare-up coincides with an annual Vietnamese offensive against Khmer Rouge guerrillas opposed to Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea. Beginning in March, Vietnamese troops attacked rebel positions along the border between Thailand and Kampuchea. The Chinese, who support the guerrillas, use their own attacks to divert Vietnamese attention-and firepower-from Kampuchea...
...China's borders, and we occupy no lands. Nor do we commit wanton acts, such as shooting 269 innocent people out of the sky for the so-called cause of sacred airspace. America and China both condemn military expansionism-the brutal occupation of Afghanistan, the crushing of Kampuchea [Cambodia...
Reagan and his hosts will find more room for agreement on other topics. Many aspects of China's foreign policy coincide with U.S. interests; Washington, for example, approves of Chinese efforts to restrain Viet Nam in Kampuchea and to build stronger ties with Japan. U.S. officials are also heartened by China's attempts to begin talking to South Korea. Says a State Department aide: "They know a new Korean war would be a major disaster for them and for us." Most important, the U.S. and China remain equally suspicious of the Soviet Union. Although Peking and Moscow resumed low-level...
...came at a time of rising concern about the possibility of a chemical arms race. In 1981 the U.S. charged that the Soviets were using chemical warfare against rebels in Afghanistan. By 1983, the U.S. claimed, Soviet-made toxic weapons had killed 10,000 people in Afghanistan, Laos and Kampuchea. The Reagan Administration has asked Congress for money to modernize the U.S. stockpile of toxic weaponry...
...announced last week that Soviet use of toxic gas had dramatically declined. In a report to the United Nations, the State Department said the U.S. could not confirm any chemical warfare by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan last year. It added that Soviet-backed governments in Laos and Kampuchea had used less lethal toxic weapons against local dissidents...