Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Western analysts were certain that the Chinese backed down out of fear. Moscow's hints of preventive nuclear strikes finally convinced at least one faction of Peking's leadership that the Russians meant business and the time had come to face reality and yield before superior Soviet power. Another possibility, of course, was that the Chinese were simply buying time to get through a highly dangerous phase in the conflict and stop the shooting. That would be in line with one of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's dictums: "In defense, the immediate object is to preserve...
...Peking's most notable apostle of flexibility, Premier Chou En-lai is believed to be the guiding effort behind the policy switch. It was Chou who met with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Peking last month to discuss the border issue. Presumably, Chou's advocacy of a more pragmatic approach to the Russians was endorsed by some of China's military leaders, including Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng...
...Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was off in East Berlin helping Walter Ulbricht celebrate the 20th birthday of his regime. Despite the lack of a reply, Russian sources indicated that their delegation to the talks would be headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, a skilled negotiator who was Soviet Ambassador to China from 1953 to 1955, when relations were far warmer. For their part, the Chinese have made it clear that notwithstanding their willingness to talk, the ideological struggle will "continue for a long period of time." The basic hostility between the two Communist giants has by no means...
...decade ago, most Western analysts thought a split between the Soviet Union and China inconceivable. Today, the analysts find the notion that Moscow and Peking will make up any time in the foreseeable future equally inconceivable. Indeed, even in agreeing to hold border talks with the Soviets, the Chinese spoke of "irreconcilable differences" with Moscow. Yet what if the inconceivable should occur once again, and Moscow and Peking were able to reach a genuine reconciliation? Among the possibilities...
...CHINA AND THE SOVIET UNION: Along the 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet frontier, where both sides have been feverishly building up forces since bloody Ussuri River clashes earlier this year, tensions relax quickly. Moscow withdraws many of the thousands of men who guard Central Asia and the Soviet Far East. The Chinese start to redeploy forces dug in along the frontier, moving them into political and civic action work inside China to help heal the wounds caused by Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. The Soviets resume a degree of aid to China, mainly in industrial credits...