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...GROWING WARMTH in Sino-American relations, as demonstrated by President Nixon's recent trip to China, has attracted great public interest. Several years ago, before the Nixon Administration had publicly indicated its desire for improved relations with the People's Republic of China, it appeared that the two countries would continue their heated confrontation. This paper--written in October 1969--provides some of the background for the surprising reconciliation and some of the motives of the two great powers involved...
...SINO-AMERICAN CONTACTS. Taking presidential rhetoric perhaps too seriously, Brezhnev is worried that the U.S. and China may have made a secret pact that went beyond the bilateral bounds of the Sino-American communique. "How else can one interpret the statement at the Shanghai banquet that 'today our two peoples hold in their hands the fate of the future of the entire world'?" he said. But Brezhnev undoubtedly wants to talk to Nixon about his China trip before jumping to any hasty conclusions. "We are in no hurry with final assessments," he declared...
...having different social systems, and it could mean that Moscow despairs of ever healing its ideological rift with China. In his speech, the party chief did not mention that a Soviet negotiating team last week returned to Peking for what could lead to a resumption of the talks about Sino-Soviet border disputes. But he did stress that the responsibility for better relations "is up to the Chinese side...
...pronounced cordiality of the Sino-American contact contrasted sharply with the abrasive hostility that has marked the long-stalled Viet Nam peace talks. In fact, there was some speculation that the Chinese had a special motivation in choosing Paris as the site for Sino-American contacts. They wanted to show the cantankerous North Vietnamese that Hanoi's displeasure will not deter Peking from following its new line in foreign policy...
...security system that Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev has proposed: "I am afraid it would not be very effective as long as there is such a state of enmity and tension between the U.S.S.R. and China." He stressed that it would be a "great blunder" for Japan to use Sino-Soviet enmity as a "trick to improve our relations with China...