Word: sino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to neutralize anti-Russian sentiment by buying off the populations of Transcaucasia and Central Asia with material benefits and protection. The citizens of Soviet Azerbaijan live more prosperously, and certainly more calmly, than their ethnic cousins in the northwestern provinces of Iran. The Muslim groups that straddle the Sino-Soviet border, for example, have traditionally fared somewhat better under Moscow's tutelage than Peking's. The Russians' fast-approaching status as a minority in their own country forces them to be more compromising than the Han Chinese, who make up more than 90% of the 1 billion citizens...
...next government will almost certainly pursue the conservative policies of the Brezhnev era. The leaders, though, will probably make overtures to China in an attempt to repair the 18-year-old Sino-Soviet breach. Meanwhile, thousands of middle-level officials who are now in their 40s and 50s will be jockeying for power behind the scenes. By the late 1980s, if not before, they will have completed the second stage of the inevitable transfer of authority to a new generation. Officials now holding 5,000 to 6,000 top jobs will be replaced. These will include not only members...
...deterrent to Soviet expansionism." He advocates military assistance to the anti-Marxist guerrillas of Afghanistan and Angola. Cuba represents "the threat of Soviet influence spreading through the Caribbean," and Nicaragua is a bear's paw threatening U.S. interests in Latin America. He even plays down the Sino-Soviet split, emphasizing that whatever the quarrels between China and the Soviet Union, "both are Communist, and both want to take over the world...
...because he had been off in the Middle East while Brzezinski was sealing the deal with Peking; second, because when he met Andrei Gromyko in Geneva for what was supposed to be the final SALT session, the meeting produced yet another impasse, in part because of Soviet unhappiness over Sino-American normalization...
...reverse, its course in a number of key respects. As a consequence of the increase in East-West tensions, the world is farther than ever from the objective of disarmament that Carter proclaimed in his Inaugural Address. With Harold Brown's statements in China last week about Sino-American common interests in countering Soviet expansionism, the Administration abandoned the last pretense of the "evenhandedness" it promised in its policies toward Moscow and Peking. Far from playing down the Soviet-American relationship, Carter and his advisers today are more preoccupied with the problem of how to deal with the Russians...