Word: sino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a three-week interlude, the Sino-Soviet border talks resumed in Peking last week. The atmosphere was anything but cordial. One indication of the sorry state of relations between the two Communist giants came during a Moscow news conference conducted by the Soviet Union's tough but soft-spoken Foreign Ministry press chief, Leonid Zamyatin. In the midst of the conference, Huang Chung-chich, the New China News Agency's man in Moscow, leaped to his feet to ask why the Kremlin had permitted publication of an article in a new Soviet industrial newspaper that referred...
...Peking's flirtation with Washington, however mild, was carefully timed. The Sino-Soviet negotiations over reducing border tensions were supposed to resume in Peking last week, but apparently have been delayed because the two sides are so far apart. Moscow has agreed to discuss minor border adjustments, but the Chinese insist on a broader approach: a mutual troop withdrawal from the disputed areas and a Soviet admission that the present frontiers are based on "unequal treaties" dating back to czarist times. The Chinese were also miffed because the Soviet negotiator, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, returned...
...their part, the Soviets are deeply disturbed by the prospect of the renewed Sino-American talks. As Harrison Salisbury notes in his recent book, War Between Russia and China, the Soviets have "an almost paranoid fear that the United States might turn up in China's corner." It might be added that the Chinese are haunted by a similar nightmare about the Russians making a deal with...
Despite the temptation to profit from the mutual Sino-Soviet distrust, the U.S. was scrupulously avoiding even the suggestion that it might be fishing in troubled waters. As it was, the Chinese and Russians seemed to be roiling the waters quite enough on their own. The on-and-off propaganda war between Moscow and Peking was on again, in full force. Peking condemned the "Soviet revisionist renegade clique." In the Soviet Union's angriest attack on China since the border talks began, Tass accused the Chinese of "fanning chauvinist sentiments and military psychosis...