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...last high-level Sino-Soviet confrontation was held in February 1965, as Kosygin was also on his way home from a visit to Hanoi. On that occasion, Kosygin made it farther than the airport-he was received by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Almost certainly, they then agreed on the need to increase aid to North Viet Nam, but no progress was evident on the settling of their feud. Since then, the feud has grown to epic proportions. Last March, just after a bitter, bloody Soviet-Chinese clash on the Ussuri River, Kosygin sought to telephone Peking's leaders...
...Bucharest after Ho's funeral, appealed for Sino-Soviet talks. Moreover, the Chinese had stumbled badly in their handling of North Viet Nam over the past several days. Chou had flown to Hanoi before Ho's funeral, then left with almost indecent haste in the face of Kosygin's arrival. Neither Chairman Mao nor No. 2 Man Lin bothered to show up to register condolences with North Viet Nam's embassy in Peking; China watchers suggested that Mao and Lin, who have not been seen in public for nearly four months, may be gravely...
Almost certainly the initiative for the meeting came from Moscow. Japanese Communist Party Chairman Sanzo Nosaka said that Kosygin used his North Vietnamese hosts as go-betweens to let the Chinese know that he wanted to stop off in Peking. According to Nosaka, Kosygin made his request as soon as he reached Hanoi, but Peking had not bothered to reply by the time he departed five days later. Kosygin flew to Calcutta and was en route to Dushanbe in Soviet Central Asia when the Chinese leaders finally approved the meeting. Though Kosygin's long detour was interpreted...
Frank Talks. Whether the talks did anything to further the cause of peace, however, is questionable. Both sides later described them as "frank," which suggests that they were probably brusque and unprofitable. According to diplomats in Moscow, Kosygin intended to establish a basis for possible later actions against China in the event that Peking proves intransigent in the future, and to warn Peking that the Soviet Union would tolerate no further border violations...
...Chinese divisions, totalling about 300,000 men. Over the past several months, the Chinese have become increasingly worried by reports in Western newspapers hinting that Moscow is considering a preventive strike against Peking's atomic-weapons plant at Lanchow and the nuclear testing grounds at Lop Nor, although Kosygin has dismissed such stories as "total nonsense." According to an Indian Foreign Ministry report, China now has begun moving its Lop Nor facilities south to Tibet -farther from the Soviet border...