Word: sino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chou En-lai first raised a goblet of fiery mao-tai to welcome Richard Nixon on his historic visit to Peking in 1972, American and Chinese officials have been toasting the friendship between the great Chinese and American peoples. But the fact is, of course, that from their beginnings Sino-American relations have had little to do with friendship and everything to do with a shared animosity toward the Soviet Union. For the past decade, the China factor has been a critical equalizer in the world balance of power. The Chinese People's Liberation Army ties down 49 Soviet...
That nightmare is still a long way from coming true, but anxiety about a possible Sino-Soviet rapprochement has increased in the West. Chinese officials have taken to exchanging recriminations rather than courtesies with their American counterparts. At the same time, the People's Republic has been muting its hostility to the U.S.S.R...
...Qichen was negotiating with his Soviet opposite number, Leonid Ilyichev, on how to improve relations between the two Communist giants. China had suspended those negotiations in retaliation for the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979. Even before Ilyichev arrived in Peking three weeks ago, the Sino-American relationship was undergoing its most intense growing pains in a decade. The immediate cause of difficulty is a flare-up of the old dispute over the status of Taiwan. More than three decades after Mao Tse-tung's takeover of the mainland, the Nationalist government on the island...
...Chinese also risk alienating a U.S. Administration that at its highest levels is none too enthusiastic about Sino-American relations. Zhao's attack elicited a sharply worded response from Washington protesting "unfriendly" statements and "simplistic sloganeering." Secretary of State George Shultz is having second thoughts about going through with a tentatively scheduled visit to China later this year, and Reagan is cool on the idea of making a trip of his own next year...
...State Henry Kissinger in early October to send discreet positive signals back to Washington. Nixon and Kissinger were both told repeatedly by the top Chinese leaders that there is no need for concern about Ilyichev's return to Peking. Deng said that "no real and fundamental improvement in Sino-Soviet relations" was possible until the U.S.S.R. had met three conditions. The Soviets must pull out of Afghanistan, which shares a narrow border with China. Moscow must end its support for Viet Nam's military takeover of Cambodia. Indochina is the soft underbelly of the P.R.C. Peking sees...