Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evolution of the Sino-Soviet relationship has followed a tortuous course. A decade of comradeship shattered in 1960 over China's resentment at forever being expected to let Moscow call the tune, and over Mao's charge that Nikita Khrushchev was diluting Marxist-Leninist dogma. Border talks in 1978 began to melt the two-decade freeze. But before normalcy could be achieved, two outbreaks of hostilities in Asia seriously disturbed China. One was the invasion of Kampuchea by Viet Nam, a Soviet ally, which eventually provoked a "punitive attack" by Chinese troops on Hanoi's territory. The second...
...three years from 4 million to 3 million. The extraordinary warming in U.S.-Soviet relations over the past four years also put pressure on the Chinese to make a parallel move. Says a senior State Department official in Washington: "They must respond to the vitality in the U.S.-Soviet relationship...
...each other is a tremendous plus in diplomacy. At times some Washington officials sought to overplay "the China card," but the Chinese had a keen sense of how far to let things go. In 1978 President Jimmy Carter established full diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing, putting the relationship on a permanent, rather than personal, basis...
...other nations along the Pacific Rim, thus ending a long period in which the Chinese were regarded as dangerously destabilizing. Second, America's strategic position, widely assumed to be imperiled by the disastrous ending of its involvement in the Viet Nam War, was unexpectedly enhanced. Finally, the new relationship between China, the United States and Japan dealt a diplomatic setback to the Soviet Union throughout the region...
...ritual rhetoric could not paper over the underlying problems in the relationship between the two allies. Chief among them is Japan's stubborn trade surplus with the U.S., which now seems stuck at more than $50 billion a year. After shrinking during much of 1988, the trade gap widened significantly last November, leading some economists to conclude that the improvement has at least temporarily stalled. The trade gap has defied such remedies as the dollar's steep two-year decline, which was expected to slow Japanese exports to the U.S. by making them more expensive. One reason for the lack...