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...Peking's flirtation with Washington, however mild, was carefully timed. The Sino-Soviet negotiations over reducing border tensions were supposed to resume in Peking last week, but apparently have been delayed because the two sides are so far apart. Moscow has agreed to discuss minor border adjustments, but the Chinese insist on a broader approach: a mutual troop withdrawal from the disputed areas and a Soviet admission that the present frontiers are based on "unequal treaties" dating back to czarist times. The Chinese were also miffed because the Soviet negotiator, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, returned...
...their part, the Soviets are deeply disturbed by the prospect of the renewed Sino-American talks. As Harrison Salisbury notes in his recent book, War Between Russia and China, the Soviets have "an almost paranoid fear that the United States might turn up in China's corner." It might be added that the Chinese are haunted by a similar nightmare about the Russians making a deal with...
...almost ceased to function as a result of the ravages of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. In 1966-67, Peking recalled its ambassadors from all over the world. Even now it has replaced only one in Eastern Europe-in Rumania, which has remained neutral in the Sino-Soviet quarrel. Late last year, presumably in a test of the new Nixon Administration, the Chinese agreed to a single meeting in Warsaw in February, only to cancel it abruptly after a Chinese diplomat in Holland defected...
Chinese motivation for talks rests on its fear of Russia. The Sino-Soviet border talks, now adjourned after eight weeks, seem to be going badly. The Chinese apparently hope to gain leverage on the Soviets by demonstrating readiness to deal with...
...Sino-Soviet split revealed...