Word: sino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trouble was, de-emphasizing the Soviet-American relationship necessarily meant defusing the Soviet-American rivalry, and just the opposite has happened. The Soviets were angry over the human rights policy, rapid Sino-American rapprochement, the hawkish tone of the Senate SALT debate, the go-ahead for the MX missile, and the decision to deploy new weapons in Europe. Partly because of that anger and partly because of the imperatives of their own national security, the Kremlin rebuffed U.S. attempts at "persuasion." It was as though the old men in the Politburo had decided to teach Carter a lesson in what...
...have intended their invasion of Afghanistan to demonstrate to Pakistan and Iran what happens to unruly neighbors. This is a message that Moscow may be particularly interested in sending to China in an effort to restrain Peking's maneuverings both in Southeast Asia and along the 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet frontier. Beyond that, the Soviet message is addressed...
...assistance to Peking, and says: "The danger is in thinking that because the Chinese and Soviets obviously have poor relations with each other, we therefore share all of the common interests with the Chinese. We don't." Administration analysts who have observed Soviet anger at every stage of the Sino-U.S. rapprochement are concerned about how the Kremlin might respond if Peking were to receive sophisticated U.S. weapons. It is just possible, say some of these experts, that Moscow could launch a pre-emptive strike against China...