Word: sino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategic superiority, because Russia could not afford to lose." Kissinger contends that a decisive Red Chinese defeat in Korea would probably not have brought an all-out war; instead, the Soviet Union might have coldly reconsidered expending its resources to help a bungling ally. In any case, the Sino-Soviet alliance would have been severely strained. But during the long Korean stalemate, "our traditional insistence on divorcing force from diplomacy caused our power to lack purpose and our negotiations to lack force...
...ruled supreme as czar of the underworld in French Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies, but he soon found that the more peaceable job of chauffeur for the French government in Saigon gave him more time to indulge his hobby of smuggling contraband and opium. At the outbreak of World...
...Need One of the first acts of First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev after Stalin's death was to fly to Red China. Hints dropped subsequently by Khrushchev indicated that Stalin's interference in China's affairs-particularly in the Korean war-had all but brought Sino-Soviet relations to the breaking point. With soft words and smooth promises Khrushchev soothed Chinese feelings. Last week the favor was returned. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was in Moscow to repair with soft words and smooth threats the widening rifts in the Soviet Union's western...
Ostensibly Chou was in Rangoon to ratify the settlement of the Sino-Burmese border dispute, which he and former Burmese Premier U Nu worked out recently. This guaranteed that China would relinquish her claims to the Wa States in return for Burma's surrender of three Kachin villages annexed by Burma in the days of British rule. The Kachin villagers are ardently opposed to this plan...
...mechanical toys, Mao spent part of his two-hour visit delightedly pressing buttons to make a toy bus stop, back and turn by remote control. He also found time to say: "I realize Japan's connections with the U.S. make the problem difficult, but we hope for restored Sino-Japanese relations." Other comrades, queueing for half a mile to get in, fought for glimpses of Japanese cameras, electronic fishing gear and TV. Television, in fact, was the hit of the show. The Japanese had brought a small transmitting outfit and set up a receiver in Mao's office...