Word: summited
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...object of all these travels was to arrange a climactic summit between Deng and Gorbachev in Beijing this spring, perhaps in May. The easing of tensions is certain to produce diplomatic fallout of global importance. It could lead to a new era of stability in Asia, where the 4,500-mile Chinese- Soviet border sometimes threatened to become the fuse for war, perhaps even nuclear conflict. The U.S. might be losing its "China card," but the world will gain a new style of superpower diplomacy: no more will China be the stick for the U.S. to beat the Soviets...
...gloss on the new relationship than are the Chinese. Before his departure, Shevardnadze recounted how Deng had spoken of a "chapter on the future." But Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Tian Zengpei chose to emphasize "differences" between the two sides over the Kampuchea issue and even said the mid-May summit date was still under "study...
...Deng-Gorbachev summit will have a daunting list of issues to resolve before any grand hopes for an era of good feeling in the Far East are realized. Working out details of a new government order in Kampuchea will be difficult enough. Larger dreams of transforming Indochina from "a battlefield to a marketplace" or reconciling North and South Korea lie well in the future. But the 1.4 billion people of the Soviet Union and China have good cause for some quiet celebration. At the very least, they can mark the beginning of the end of a dark...
...goes well, the year's most spectacular photo opportunity will present itself in May, when Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing. But this will be much more than a photo-op. Such a summit would formally end an important advantage enjoyed by the U.S. since Richard Nixon visited China in 1972: Washington could talk to the leadership in both Beijing and Moscow, but ; there was no high-level dialogue between the Soviets and the Chinese and virtually no significant contact at lower levels...
Nonetheless, the United States should not fear the ending of its monopoly of Big Three summit dialogue. Sino-American relations are now firmly based on mutual interests that go far beyond a common attitude toward Moscow. Gorbachev and Deng will not emerge from a summit ideologically reunified or recommitted to joint support of subversion. In the Third World, Marxism has lost its attractiveness as an ideology and an economic theory; men calling themselves Marxists openly discuss what they can learn from capitalist societies like South Korea. However, even as the socialist economies liberalize, the fundamental disagreements still exist between...