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That the U.S. should now be so openly and unabashedly courted by a regime that used to excoriate the Yankee imperialism as a paper tiger is one of the most startling reversals in modern diplomatic history. It reflects, to a great extent, the determination of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing and China's other new leaders to enlist Washington's help in countering the Soviet Union's mounting influence in Asia. It thus establishes a major new phase in Washington's often stormy relations not only with Peking but with Moscow as well. Even as the Chinese were meeting...
...true that he rules with the support of his allies in the Politburo and in consensus with Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, but he is still the boss. If there were any doubts about this, they were resolved a month ago when Brezhnev added two more of his closest allies to the top leadership, Konstantin Chernenko as a full Politburo member and Nikolai Tikhonov as a candidate member...
...since the disintegration of South Viet Nam and the fall of Saigon four years ago had Southeast Asia witnessed such a swift and stunning shift in political power. Faced with the invasion of Cambodia by twelve Vietnamese divisions totaling 100,000 men, the Democratic Kampuchean government of Premier Pol Pot hunkered down in Phnom-Penh and pledged itself to annihilate the oncoming "Vietnamese clique." Within hours after that brave statement, Phnom-Penh had fallen, the Pol Pot government and many of its soldiers were in flight, and foreign diplomats together with nearly 700 Chinese and North Korean advisers were beating...
Ieng Sary, 48, Pol Pot's Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister. Instead of righting, he sent a distress call to Bangkok by way of the Khmer Rouge and was scooped up by a Thai helicopter. One day later, he arrived in Peking pledging that he would fight...
...faithful allies on Taiwan, that "bastion of freedom and democracy." But American perspectives of the China situation have changed. In 1949, for example, Time Magazine named Chiang Kai-shek, the founder of the Nationalist regime, as its Man of the Year; this year, Time so honored PRC Vice-Premier Teng Hsiaoping. Just as we did not 'lose' China to the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, we are not 'abandoning' Taiwan in 1979. In addition, as America has learned, interfering in the internal disputes of Asian nations rarely rebounds to our advantage...