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...latest Communist state to side with Moscow in the Sino-Soviet dispute is Outer Mongolia, 615,000 sq. mi. of pastureland and rolling hills set smack between the two quarreling titans...
Among the reasons widely cited for the Sino-Soviet split is the case of Marshal Peng Teh-huai, Red China's former Minister of Defense. As reported by Sinologist David Charles in the China Quarterly of London, the story of the marshal's fall from grace is considered generally plausible by Western experts, if perhaps questionable in some details...
...London the cash-on-the-line sale (an estimated $8,400,000) meant a break in Peking's isolation from the West, perhaps a further widening of the Sino-Soviet rift. With the Vickers Viscounts go technicians and spare parts, spelling an end to Russia's grip on Red Chinese aviation. Word of new deals followed -trucks, fuel and lubricating oil. more planes...
...facts. Now that military action has been taken against the Portuguese, Nehru will find it difficult to explain his refusal to resist and repel Red China's border incursions. Gone is Nehru's argument that he will "negotiate and negotiate and negotiate to the bitter end" the Sino-Indian frontier disputes. Continued backing-down will lay Nehru open to the charge that he has double standards of courage...
Hindi Chini, Bye-Bye. The situation erupted over Red China's latest violation of the 2,000-mile-long Sino-Indian frontier. Since the signing of the 1954 pact, the Red Chinese have again and again penetrated Indian territory. Red China does not recognize the 1914 McMahon line, which fixed India's Tibetan border in the North-East Frontier Agency, claims that the actual frontier runs 100 miles south of the present line on the south slope of the Himalayas. Two years ago, Red China occupied 12,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory in Kashmir, has laid claim...