Word: sino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, the East-West talks in Moscow may just possibly prove no more fruitful than the Sino-Soviet talks. But U.S. observers still wonder how long Khrushchev can go on fighting a two-front war, refusing both concessions to Peking and a genuine move toward "peaceful coexistence" with the West...
...will get warmer." Fresh Insults. In one sense, things undoubtedly got warmer when both sides met behind the massive walls of a rarely used mansion in the Lenin Hills section of Moscow. Suslov and Teng exchanged toasts, but that was just routine. For under the pose of politeness, the Sino-Soviet quarrel was becoming ruder than ever. Without explanation, Peking suddenly withdrew its two entries from an international film festival about to open in Moscow. And just before the party leaders met, Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung exchanged a fresh round of insults over Red China's 25-point...
...Chinese still sneer at the Russians as "Big Noses" and consider them as alien as other Westerners. Moreover, the population pressure along the Sino-Soviet border is a constant menace to Moscow; by 1980 there will be 1 billion Chinese. When a British visitor suggested to Khrushchev not long ago that the Chinese masses would eventually explode north into Siberia or south to Australia, Nikita replied grimly: "I'm in favor of Australia...
Time was when Western skeptics wondered whether the Sino-Soviet split was real. Khrushchev, they figured, might be relatively nice to the West only long enough to wangle some concessions on NATO or nuclear arms control; then Mao would step in and together they would demolish the free world. Today it is inconceivable that the quarrel is merely an act. In fact, there is a growing vision-shared by such disparate prophets as Arnold Toynbee and Charles de Gaulle-of Russia and the West some day standing together as allies against China. Stranger things have happened in history...
Above all, the Congress was a manifestation of the ever-widening Sino-Soviet split...