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...soon as Henry Kissinger finished shepherding President Ford through Tokyo, Seoul and Vladivostok, the Secretary of State embarked by himself on another diplomatic tour, this one to China. It is Kissinger's seventh trip to Peking since he helped open the Sino-American dialogue in July 1971. Chances are he will find China's leaders more troubled and uncertain than on any of his previous visits...
...this day, the name of the city sounds provocative to Chinese ears, and even though Communists have replaced monarchs in both Moscow and Peking, conflicting claims on Vladivostok and the surrounding Maritime Province have flared up frequently during the Sino-Soviet quarrel. In March 1963, the Chinese newspaper The People's Daily attacked the Kremlin for retaining control over land that "Russian imperialists" had acquired by "unequal and temporary treaties...
...radicals' arguments-after all, it was Mao who plunged China into the reckless adventure of the Cultural Revolution with the call "Bombard the party headquarters!" But Mao also clearly approved such departures from ideological purity as Chou's openness toward Japan and the West. Indeed, Sino-American relations, though cautious on cultural exchanges, have blossomed in the area of trade; the U.S. is now China's second-largest trading partner, after Japan. (By contrast, the Soviet Union inspires only fear in China -enough to prompt continued building of vast air-raid shelters in many of China...
China watchers differed over how to interpret this ultramilitant rhetoric. State Department experts denied that Chou's remarks prefaced a new freeze in Sino-American relations. Some Washington experts speculated that the Chinese were angry about the recent appointment of Leonard Unger, a senior career diplomat, as U.S. Ambassador to Taiwan. The Chinese may be disappointed that détente has not yet brought about any discernible progress in resolving the Taiwan problem in Peking's favor...
Almost contemptuous of the future of Western democracy-especially in the U.S.-Solzhenitsyn asserts that for Russia there can be no alternative to authoritarian rule in the foreseeable future. This, he argues, must be based on national self-interest, and not on ideology.He believes that the Sino-Soviet conflict critically endangers Russia's future...