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...Tanaka well knows, Sino-Japanese relations are the single most powerful issue in Japanese politics. Only last week, the Tokyo daily Asahi Shimbun published a poll showing that 39% of the Japanese population now rate China as Japan's top foreign policy priority, while the U.S., which had always led such polls before, dropped to second place with a 28% rating. If the Peking summit is successful, Tanaka may call a quick election, perhaps as early as next month, to add a public mandate to the Liberal Democratic Party vote that brought him the premiership last July, when longtime...
Accommodation. But both governments have been afraid that a big-power directorate would once again settle their problems over their heads. North Korea's Kim II Sung has been concerned that his country might one day turn into a battlefield of a Sino-So-viet war. South Korean President Park, in the wake of President Nixon's trip to Peking, evidently decided that, instead of waiting for the withdrawal of the 43,000 U.S. troops still stationed on South Korean soil, it would be better to start talking with Pyongyang while the Americans are still there...
...Bucharest from a visit to Peking. Reportedly he brought word of a deep Chinese suspicion that Sato would try to score some points in Japanese domestic politics by getting Ceausescu to act as his go-between in Peking, which has turned aside Sato's efforts to improve Sino-Japanese relations. The result has been ill feeling in Tokyo, embarrassment in Bucharest, and no doubt satisfaction in Peking...
FEAR OF CHINA. The Russians, who keep 44 divisions backed by nuclear missiles near the Sino-Soviet border, have been obsessed by fear of the Chinese threat since the border battles along the Ussuri River in 1969. They are even more alarmed by the prospect of a Washington-Peking alliance that would leave Russia isolated. Hence the Russians are reluctant to undertake any action that could either completely alienate the U.S. or give the U.S. and China a common cause...
...Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Hugh Scott, who are on a three-week tour of the People's Republic. The Chinese are unhappy with Hanoi for switching prematurely to a large-unit campaign against their advice, instead of building up the Communist political infrastructure in South Viet Nam. The Sino-Soviet rivalry is also a factor in Peking's tepid backing of Hanoi. North Viet Nam's tanks, artillery and antiaircraft weapons come from the Russians; if Hanoi wins its battles using them, it will be a blow to the Maoist doctrine of "people's war" and a boost...