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Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid Ilyichev offered a less than optimistic view of the chances for an improvement in Sino-Soviet relations when he arrived in Peking earlier this month for the fifth round of talks between the two nations. Said he: "We never lose hope." True to form, there were no signs last week of any breakthrough in the two-year-old negotiations. But if détente between the Communist world's two biggest rivals has been stalled, Peking has had some measure of success recently in wooing Moscow's friends and neighbors...
...apparent warmth in U.S.-Chinese relations following the Reagan visit to Peking last spring, and accuse the Chinese of trying to pick a fight with Viet Nam. In June the Chinese foreign-language weekly Beijing Review went so far as to say that it was "unreal and impossible for Sino-Soviet relations to return to where they once were in history...
...will remain intact, as will the market for foreign exchange and gold that has turned Hong Kong into the world's third-largest financial center. Above all, the new "Hong Kong, China" will preserve all its rights and freedoms, including those of speech, press, movement and religion. The Sino-British agreement even went so far as to state categorically that "the socialist [i.e., Communist] system will not be practiced in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region...
Nonetheless, the historic new Sino-British agreement is virtually certain to be passed by Parliament in early December, and Thatcher will fly to Peking to complete the formalities, probably at year's end. It will then remain only for the Chinese to begin the arduous task of drafting and ratifying a new Basic Law to incorporate the joint declaration. Although in theory the residents of Hong Kong may challenge the terms of the treaty, in practice they can do nothing to change them. Instead, a people famous for their speculations and their love of gambling can only rely...
Diplomats, writer and scholars probed the complexities of modern Sino-American relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics Forum last night...