Word: sino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Teng's visit about President Carter's efforts to dissuade him from any action in Viet Nam. In Soviet eyes, Carter's disapproval must have seemed too mild in the midst of the exciting new Chinese-American embrace. Moreover, Washington's current assurances that Sino-American normalization will continue despite the invasion, and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal's unperturbed trip to Peking, where he discussed most-favored-nation status for China, were not lost on Moscow. Those gestures could hardly be expected to change the Soviet view that the U.S. had "at least...
Reasoned a senior Administration official: "Why should we hurt ourselves by stopping our efforts to enhance our now normal relationship with China? Let's not be so hysterical about this that we do things that endanger our interest." Said one Sino-Soviet expert: "Secretly, I revel in this sort of thing. Of course, there are hazards in it; there is the danger that the war could upset the stability of the entire region. But from a strictly hardheaded standpoint, the best thing might be that there is no outcome to the Sino-Vietnamese-Soviet conflict, that they all sort...
...another conflict occurred last week when State Department Soviet Expert Marshall Shulman predicted that the Soviet Union would not intervene to punish China. Said Shulman: "If [the war] remains essentially at roughly the same scale, it seems to us not likely that the Soviet Union will respond on the Sino-Soviet border." Others close to the President are less sanguine, worrying that the longer the Chinese-Vietnamese conflict goes on, the more likely some Russian action becomes...
Hanoi has a clear superiority over Peking in sophisticated weaponry. Although both forces are fighting with arms made in the U.S.S.R. or with copies of Soviet models, many of the PLA's weapons were acquired before the Sino-Soviet split in the late 1950s. The Vietnamese also have some captured American equipment, notably the 177-mm howitzer, which outguns any artillery piece in the Chinese inventory. One of Hanoi's favorite and most effective weapons, as Americans learned at Khe Sanh, is the 130-mm howitzer. Says one military analyst in Hong Kong: "The Vietnamese love...
Joseph S. Nye, professor of Government and former Undersecretary of State: I don't necessarily think the United States has to get involved in any military sense in the case of a Sino-Soviet conflict. I think politically the American role has to be at least a background factor in any conflict. The uncertainty about how the Americans will react--since they are the background factor in any three-party game--will be felt. But I don't think it follows that we have to get involved directly in any military sense...