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Moscow's overtures to Peking raise questions about Sino-U.S. ties...
...full view of television cameras was not missed. On her arrival in Hong Kong Sunday, on the last leg of a two-week Asian tour, the Prime Minister faced a barrage of local criticism that she had got off on the wrong foot in the opening round of Sino-British talks over the future of the crown colony...
...scene was deceptively convivial. There was Vice President George Bush, smiling affably as his host, Chinese Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, raised a glass of mao-tai in a toast to Sino-American friendship. In fact, after two days of talks with China's top leadership, Bush had failed to mend a relationship between the two nations that has been deteriorating virtually from the day President Ronald Reagan took office. When Bush returned to Washington last week, he could only say that he was taking some unspecified "new ideas" back to the President, together with a Chinese warning...
...decade, Sino-American relations have been defined by the Shanghai Communiqué signed during President Richard Nixon's historic visit to Peking in 1972. In that document, the U.S. agreed that mainland China and the island republic of Taiwan, which is governed by the Nationalist Party that fled the mainland after its defeat by the Communists in 1949, constitute "one China." Implicit was the understanding that the U.S., while not severing its ties to Taiwan altogether, would scale them down progressively. In that spirit, the Carter Administration in 1979 closed the U.S. embassy in Taipei and established full diplomatic...
...Argentine fleet is an aircraft carrier built by Britain; the Sheffield was sunk by a missile made in France. U.S. proposals to sell F-5E fighter jets to Taiwan have exacerbated another lingering territorial dispute. Vice President George Bush went to Peking last week to try to ease Sino-American tensions caused by the proposed arms sale...