Word: sino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan was interrupted by applause seven times in his 20-minute speech, and generously toasted wherever he went during the visit. Yet he discovered that Sino-American diplomacy can still be a very tricky affair. When China's government television system broadcast the President's Great Hall speech, 17 passages were judged provocative and excised (see box). To be sure, the speech also demonstrated that while the President has largely reversed himself on China, his conservative rhetoric has lost none of its crackle. He called the Soviet Union "wanton" and "brutal," and ascribed America's success...
...BECOMING something of a sino qua non for a commie-baiting President seeking reelection to stage a carefully timed pre-election love-in with the Chinese. Ronald Reagan is trying to recapture the effect Richard M. Nixon made when he became the first U.S. premier to pay his respects to our One Billion Red brothers, and this week's trip should be replete with pathetic scenes of inter-ideological friendship, numerous pictures of Nancy and Ronald deftly maneuvering their chopsticks over bowls of rice and chop suey, and enough symbolism to make even TV executives retch...
Reagan will forget he has made a blood oath to wipe communism from the face of the earth, and both he and Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping will carefully ignore Taiwan--the most sticky issue in Sino-American relations. Reagan, who for three years showed a decided preference for China's small capitalist would-be namesake, now gingerly talks of relations with the "people of Taiwan," but not Taiwan itself...
...everlasting regret, the USSR initially provided assistance to its fledgling ally in this endeavor. However, Khrushchev reneged on a promise to provide China a "sample" A-bomb, according to Beijing which made this charge when presenting its account of the Sino-Soviet schism. Nevertheless, in April 1964, within 15 years of its establishment, the PRC successfully detonated an atomic device...
...Soviet Union is unquestionably regarded as the principal external threat to Chinese security. The Sino-Soviet border clashes of 1969 and an abortive Soviet plan to take out China's nuclear facilities in a swift preemptive strike undoubtedly contributed to China's interest in repairing relations with the US and creating Sino-US ties that would give the Soviets pause in contemplating any military action against...