Word: sino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sino-American trade exhibits
...Soviet Union has contributed to the creditworthiness of the East bloc economies because no one believes that Moscow would allow one of its allies to go bankrupt. True, North Korea defaulted on a Western loan in 1975, but bankers attributed Moscow's failure to bail out Pyongyang to Sino-Soviet rivalry. The Kremlin has helped Poland in the past and could do so again, for example, and today it is flush with funds. Thanks to foreign sales of gold and oil, the Soviets have paid off $2.5 billion in private bank loans. Thus far, however, they have shown...
Many Chinese became fans of President Carter after he formally recognized the PRC last year. "We think he's a very smart guy, but we're just judging him on what he did for Sino-American relations, Bing says. But, he adds, Ronald Reagan--who drew headlines this summer for his alleged "two-China" policy "seems a bit muddleheaded in facing the choice between Taiwan, as a small trade partner, and China, as the great counterbalance of the Russian threat." Lynn doubts Reagan would be able to change the U.S.'s warm-attitude towards China. "It's become such...
...criticizes him for supporting the embattled SALT II treaty and the human rights policy. Brzezinski argues that despite the setbacks of the past few years, the Administration has laid the ground for effectively countering the Soviets, for repairing frayed ties with Western Europe and Japan, for consolidating the new Sino-American relationship (for which Brzezinski takes personal credit, with some justification), and for improving its dialogue with the Third World-if, of course, Carter gets another four years...
...Vietnamese are fond of boasting about their superiority over the Chinese forces, in spite of Peking's overwhelming numerical advantage. They like to point out that China's People's Liberation Army has more than 1 million men tied down on the Sino-Soviet border, while other P.L.A. troops are needed to maintain internal security. Hanoi ridicules China's aging MiG-17 and MiG-19 fighters as "toys" that the Vietnamese can easily shoot down. Hoang Tung, editor of the Vietnamese Communist Party daily Nhan Dan (The People), told Labbé: "We have a colossal army...