Word: sino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...links with Peking, quickly responded. At Leonid Brezhnev's funeral last November, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko went out of his way to give his Chinese counterpart, Huang Hua, a cordial welcome. After a 90-min. meeting, both sides declared that they were optimistic about the future of Sino-Soviet relations. Said TASS: "The Soviet leadership is striving to move these relations onto the track of good neighborliness." Although Huang was replaced as Foreign Minister after his return from Moscow by Wu Xueqian, a former Deputy Foreign Minister, the switch reflected no change in policy...
...conditions for normal relations with Moscow, it might accelerate the apprehension in the U.S. about the value of the China connection. That, in turn, could further embolden the Taiwan lobby, weaken the resistance within the Administration to new, more provocative arms sales to Taiwan, and further undermine Sino-U.S. relations...
...office in New York City and found him relishing the role of elder internationalist. Now 69, Nixon is convinced that his accomplishments in foreign policy will vindicate his presidency. He is proudest of his role in renewing U.S. relations with China. His optimism on the future of Sino-American relations is based not only on nostalgia but on cogent analysis and firsthand experience. In Nixon's view, the resumption of negotiations between the People's Republic and the Soviet Union is not necessarily a cause for alarm. "What brought us and the Chinese together ten years...
Union and China went at each other. Let's suppose tensions were to escalate and the Soviet Union were to jump the Chinese. In the nuclear age, such a conflict would inevitably lead to global war." Added Nixon: "Therefore, a reduction in Sino-Soviet tensions should be welcomed. Besides, a lasting relationship between the U.S. and China cannot be based solely, or even primarily, on fear...
Nixon would like to see a shift in Sino-American relations from an emphasis on strategic cooperation against the Soviet Union to economic cooperation, "not on a modest, but on a massive scale." He believes the Chinese want the same thing. "When I first went to the People's Republic in 1972," he recalls, "the conversation was all geopolitics. Economic assistance hardly came up at all. Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai made clear that they weren't about to sell their ideology for a bowl of economic pottage. What we talked about was survival...