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Revised Version. Latest intelligence on the device exploded in the Sinkiang Desert indicates that it was slightly stronger and more sophisticated than the U.S. first thought (see SCIENCE). And though it might take 15 or 20 years for the Chinese to develop an intercontinental missile capable of hitting the U.S., Peking may be able to deliver a nuclear bomb along its periphery in as little as five years...
...Chinese would perform the feat before long. Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said so again. Last week, with consummate timing, less than a day after Nikita Khrushchev's downfall was announced, the Chinese finally did it. From a steel tower in the desert of western Sinkiang, north of the Himalayas, they exploded a crude nuclear device...
...reason for triumph last week. It was far too early to conclude that Mao had won the struggle with Russia, which reaches beyond ideology into economic and national rivalry and beyond that into the whole question of Communism's future. But as the radiation glow faded in the Sinkiang wastelands, Mao Tse-tung could afford to gloat over his bomb-and over the sudden departure of his hated fraternal enemy Nikita Khrushchev, whom he had once scorned as the "laughingstock of the world...
Amid the silliness, Moscow was wailing about Chinese violations of Soviet frontiers, especially in Far Eastern Sinkiang, where the argument goes back about 100 years. Last month Peking accused Moscow of luring tens of thousands of Chinese into Russia for the purpose of sending them back as Soviet saboteurs. Nonsense, replied the Russians; it was just an avalanche of starving refugees. Then the Kremlin launched its own attack, charged that Red Chinese military units and civilians had systematically violated the border 5,000 times during 1962 alone, and had tried to grab Soviet territory. What's more, protested Russia...
...ally of the West, he passed along word to his American guest that Pakistan is not about to back down on the new air agreement it had just signed with China. Pakistan underscored its attitude toward Peking by announcing an agreement to survey the border between China's Sinkiang region and the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir...