Word: sino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would postpone the visit of one Spruance-class destroyer and two frigates. The reason China took the no-nuke position is unclear. Analysts say because the announcement coincided with the start-up of talks between Peking and Moscow, it is possible Hu was trying to calm Soviet fears that Sino-U.S. relations might pose some kind of military threat. It is also possible that Hu, who made the statement while on a visit to Australia, was trying to ensure a warm welcome at his next port of call, New Zealand, where the government has locked horns with Washington over...
Treadup's final stage begins when he decides to stay with his villagers even in the gathering darkness of the Sino-Japanese War. Treadup's spiritual contraction', begun when he returned from the Wester. Front, is continued in an increasing hopelessness he feels (and Hersey intends us to understand that all Westerners should have felt this) in the face of China's manifold ills--invasion, constant famine, disease, civil war and corruption...
...Thailand, drew a predictable response from Washington, which termed the intrusion "deplorable." In Peking, the Chinese government issued condemnations of "the crimes of aggression committed by the Vietnamese," but refrained from making any direct threats against Hanoi. Despite reported Chinese troop movements over the past few weeks along the Sino-Vietnamese border, Peking does not appear eager to repeat its costly 1979 invasion of Viet Nam in order to relieve the pressure on its Kampuchean allies...
...Soviet Union prepared for the Geneva meeting, there were signs of a slight thaw in Sino-Soviet relations. Chinese officials announced that the two Communist superpowers had negotiated three pacts on trade and scientific cooperation and a long-term treaty strengthening economic ties. But the two countries continued to be separated by wide political and ideological differences...
...there has also been, from the Chinese point of view, a welcome change of attitude within the Soviet camp. Said an East European observer: "We ourselves never thought that in the Sino-Soviet dispute the fault lay solely with the Chinese...