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Reasoned a senior Administration official: "Why should we hurt ourselves by stopping our efforts to enhance our now normal relationship with China? Let's not be so hysterical about this that we do things that endanger our interest." Said one Sino-Soviet expert: "Secretly, I revel in this sort of thing. Of course, there are hazards in it; there is the danger that the war could upset the stability of the entire region. But from a strictly hardheaded standpoint, the best thing might be that there is no outcome to the Sino-Vietnamese-Soviet conflict, that they all sort...
...another conflict occurred last week when State Department Soviet Expert Marshall Shulman predicted that the Soviet Union would not intervene to punish China. Said Shulman: "If [the war] remains essentially at roughly the same scale, it seems to us not likely that the Soviet Union will respond on the Sino-Soviet border." Others close to the President are less sanguine, worrying that the longer the Chinese-Vietnamese conflict goes on, the more likely some Russian action becomes...
...much do the Soviets really fear a friendly Sino-American relationship? Is this fear strong enough to act as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions worldwide...
...event of a Sino-Soviet conflict, could the United States avoid getting involved? Or should we allow ourselves to get involved...
Joseph S. Nye, professor of Government and former Undersecretary of State: I don't necessarily think the United States has to get involved in any military sense in the case of a Sino-Soviet conflict. I think politically the American role has to be at least a background factor in any conflict. The uncertainty about how the Americans will react--since they are the background factor in any three-party game--will be felt. But I don't think it follows that we have to get involved directly in any military sense...