Word: sino
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Last week seven American foreign policy specialists completed a rare visit along both sides of the still heavily fortified Sino-Soviet frontier. The two- week trip was organized by the New York City-based National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. The delegation was led by former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman and former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General John Wickham. The only journalist in the group was TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, who filed this report...
...priority on domestic economic reform in both countries is the principal reason for the improvement in Sino-Soviet relations. Both Deng and Gorbachev are looking for a peaceful international climate that will make it easier for them to divert resources to the industrial, agricultural and consumer sectors. The Chinese welcome Gorbachev's declared willingness to rely less on the threat or use of force in Soviet foreign policy. Says General Wang Zhenxi, deputy director of foreign-army studies of the Chinese Military Science Academy in Beijing: "Should Gorbachev's domestic reforms be successful, it would be helpful for world peace...
Nonetheless, General Chai predicts that "if the Soviets continue their domestic reforms and accompanying adjustments in foreign policy, eventually the Three Obstacles will be eliminated and Sino-Soviet relations will be normalized." That could mean, he says, not only a Deng-Gorbachev summit but an exchange of high-level military visits as well. Americans, he adds, should not be alarmed: "For Sino-Soviet relations to be transformed into a more moderate and relaxed state would benefit all humanity...
Cheng Feng, a strategic-affairs expert at BIISS, offers similar reassurances. "You Americans seem to think that Sino-Soviet normalization would be a kind of hell for you, that it's a terrible beast lurking out there in the future," he says. "You shouldn't worry. We've had several hundred years' experience with the Russians. You can rest assured that we will be realistic in our dealing with them...
...about it, I remember my mom coming home from work and giving me a card and a small candy heart. That's all. The card just sat there," says an Adams House sophomore. "Valentine's Day of 1987 means nothing more to me than the 37th Anniversary of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance," says a Winthrop Junior, who majors in Government...