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...Arms Control and Disarmament Agency contracted for a study of Sino-Soviet relations and arms control...
...Excuse Needed. The episode fell like a spark on the dried-up timber of Sino-Soviet relations. As the Chinese students continued on their way, some of them conspicuously swathed in bandages, the Chinese embassy lodged "the most serious and strongest protest" and demanded that "the Soviet government publicly apologize." The entire staff of the Moscow embassy held a meeting to condemn the "fascist atrocity." In Peking, Russia's embassy was soon surrounded by a nonstop demonstration of Chinese students and soldiers in an ugly mood. Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi sent a cable promising...
...rising expenses of the Viet Nam war. While the Russians obviously consider the U.S. their chief threat now, it may turn out that they are spending their money in the wrong place. The open, vulnerable end of that C faces Red China and, if Sino-Soviet relations continue to deteriorate as fast as they have been, Russian military men are bound to grow more nervous at the increasing power of China's nuclear arsenal...
While the West sees and appreciates this aspect of the falling-out, there is an other, lesser known and potentially more dangerous side: the rising of ten sion along the long Sino-Soviet border...
...China have been wrestling for years along the vast, sparsely settled 4,100-mile common frontier, from Kha barovsk in the east to Kirghiz in the west. The first recorded battle between Russian and Chinese troops took place in the Amur River valley in the 1680s, and since Sino-Soviet relations began to deteriorate in earnest in 1956, repeated incidents have occurred. Major trouble flared in 1960 and again in 1962, when Pravda reported that 5,000 border "in cidents" had occurred within twelve months. The Russians have since used troops to evict Chinese squatters from islands in the Amur...