Word: sino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospect of oppression as well as hunger and poverty until the end of the century under a regime which puts its interests far above those of the people, judging by all available official pronouncements. A tragic postscript to a tragic war. Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Assistant Professor In Sino-Vietnamese History
Finally, at this critical moment, it has become even more imperative than ever to promote relations between China and the U.S. We must handle Sino-American relations from a viewpoint of overall and prolonged strategy. The strengthening of relations between our two countries is the only way of guaranteeing the peace and stability of the world...
...probably the Soviet Union's desire to guard against a possible Japanese-American-Chinese military alliance some day in the future. The Kremlin's concern over China alone has already led it to amass 46 divisions-nearly a quarter of its total ground forces-along the Sino-Soviet border...
...into formal defense agreements with China would be an especially risky form of military competition with the U.S.S.R. The U.S. is already cooperating with the Chinese in gathering intelligence about Soviet military activity. To cross the threshold from that kind of defensive cooperation to arms sales would give the Sino-American relationship too much the cast of an anti-Soviet alliance. Such an alliance would be politically provocative without being militarily formidable-a highly undesirable combination. With or without U.S. assistance, the Chinese military will be extremely backward for some time to come. In a crisis (over Indochina, say) with...
...policies and that old foreign devil, instant gratification. The author has been observing China ever since he was graduated from the Harvard-Yenching Institute in the late '50s. He made his first trip to the mainland in 1975 and knew pretty much what to expect. The rift in Sino-Soviet relations and memories of America's recent war in Southeast Asia had deepened China's traditional sense of isolation and natural mistrust of outsiders. Although he gorged on statistics and toasts to peace and friendship, Schell felt as if he were part of an experiment in "barbarian...