Word: sino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts anticipate the imminent renewal of a Sino-Soviet alliance. Says a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Chinese have not changed their strategic posture, which holds that the real threat comes from the Soviet Union." Last week Peking once again attacked the Soviet Union as the "most dangerous source of war in the world today." In a reference to the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, which many Chinese interpreted as a move to encircle their country with pro-Soviet states, the People's Daily warned: "Don't forget Afghanistan...
...that there was no room for compromise. If Washington did not reverse its decision to supply Taiwan with weapons, Deng said, "let the relations [between the U.S. and China] retrogress. So be it." Administration policymakers cannot count on Chinese mistrust of the Soviet Union alone to ensure harmonious Sino-American relations...
...analysts agreed that there were many factors, including China's distrust of the Russians still prohibiting a Sino-Soviet reconciliation. "The Chinese distrust the Russians more than we do." Fairbank said...
...Indochina, perceived China as a potential partner in countering the growth of the Soviet military presence in Asia. China, after more than a decade of hostility toward the Soviet Union, had witnessed with alarm the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the violent clashes along the Sino-Soviet border in 1969. In Peking's view, the U.S. could not only be used to rescue China from its dangerous isolation, but could also become its principal partner in a worldwide realignment embracing Western Europe, Japan and even part of the Third World against what the Chinese called...
...previous month's Mideast war. He illustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his enlustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his encounter in 1969 with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who had come uninvited to Peking airport to discuss the easing of Sino-Soviet tensions...