Word: sino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FEAR OF CHINA. The Russians, who keep 44 divisions backed by nuclear missiles near the Sino-Soviet border, have been obsessed by fear of the Chinese threat since the border battles along the Ussuri River in 1969. They are even more alarmed by the prospect of a Washington-Peking alliance that would leave Russia isolated. Hence the Russians are reluctant to undertake any action that could either completely alienate the U.S. or give the U.S. and China a common cause...
...Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Hugh Scott, who are on a three-week tour of the People's Republic. The Chinese are unhappy with Hanoi for switching prematurely to a large-unit campaign against their advice, instead of building up the Communist political infrastructure in South Viet Nam. The Sino-Soviet rivalry is also a factor in Peking's tepid backing of Hanoi. North Viet Nam's tanks, artillery and antiaircraft weapons come from the Russians; if Hanoi wins its battles using them, it will be a blow to the Maoist doctrine of "people's war" and a boost...
Nixon called off the talks at a time when Hanoi was angrily denouncing the Sino-American communique of February 27. In an article in Nhan Dan on March 13 entitled "The Devil's Commitments," a "Commentator" castigated Nixon's efforts to maintain his treaty commitments while simultaneously feigning peaceful intentions...
...barely a month before the Warsaw talks were to begin? Was it only chance that the clash with Soviet forces on the Ussuri River occurred searcely a week and a half after Peking had cancelled the negotiations, that is, only a short time after Moscow could be reasonably certain Sino-American relations would remain unimproved...
...announcing the defection, while the second note said that the U.S.'s plotting "to send Liao Ho-shu to Taiwan with a view to creating further anti-China incidents" merits "particular" attention. The Chinese appeared to consider the U.S. handling of the incident unreasonable and indicative of how bad Sino-American relations would be in the next four years...