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...will take months before the full implications of Teng's visit are known. At the very least, his tour marks a dramatic new phase in the relationship between the two giant nations, a phase symbolized last week by the signing of scientific and cultural-exchange agreements, by the prospects of greatly increased trade and of another summit conference in China later this year. Over and over, Teng made it clear that he is urgently looking for American credit and technology to modernize his backward nation. The early signs are that he will get much of what he is seeking...
...this sudden flowering of Sino-American friendship after 30 years of hostility-including three years of bitter warfare in Korea-there lie serious dangers of increased instability in the East-West balance of power. Teng was amply provocative in his warnings that "the danger of war comes from the Soviet Union," and Carter, perhaps unwisely, joined him in a new denunciation of "hegemony," which the Chinese define as Soviet expansionism...
...highly suspicious and certainly angry Soviets, who have already been stalling on the nearly completed SALT agreement, protested Teng's "incendiary statements." Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Etobrynin went to ask Secretary of State Cyrus Vance for an explanation of U.S. behavior. Vance told him that the word hegemony was not intended by the U.S. to be anti-Soviet...
Reassuring the Soviets of U.S. even-handedness has been an aim of the Administration since its recognition of Peking. Promised Carter two weeks ago: "We will be cautious in not trying to have an unbalanced relationship [with] China and the Soviet Union." But his willingness to let Teng denounce the Soviets on U.S. soil and the use of the buzzword hegemony will now make that balancing act more difficult. Just how much was a subject of disagreement. A White House aide insisted that Carter believes there will be no effect on U.S.-Soviet relations...
...This seemed to contradict Carter's past statements in private that the Soviets were indeed delaying SALT because of their concern over the new Sino-American relationship. Some officials suggested that Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko may have to meet to clear away the smoke from Teng's visit before the SALT talks can be completed and a date set for Carter's planned meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev...