Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contributors have proposed, analyzed and, in many instances, carried out U.S. diplomacy. Its subscription list is a Who's Who of academic and political leaders around the world. Lenin is said to have read and underlined the first issue, and when Nikita Khrushchev wanted to signal a thaw in the cold war, he did so in an article in Foreign Affairs...
Lackluster Tour. When President Nixon relaxed trade restrictions with China following the first gambits of Ping Pong diplomacy, Agnew warned against a sudden thaw in U.S.-Chinese relationships. Nixon, engaged in delicate negotiations with Peking, did a slow burn over his Vice President's outspokenness on the issue. Agnew was abroad when Nixon appeared on television July 15 with his China announcement. He subsequently endorsed the Peking visit, downplaying earlier differences. Relations between Nixon and Agnew, never very close, have become chillier. Says one White House aide: "I see the old man's private calendar and Agnew...
...Soviet Union continued to react to the thaw between the U.S. and China in a muted fashion. Its press printed few articles; they criticized Peking for its "collusion with imperialism," and were less harsh to the U.S. Premier Aleksei Kosygin pointedly reminded Idaho...
Meanwhile, China's leaders continue to draw a sharp distinction between the "friendly American people" and the "fascist, imperialist Nixon government." Premier Chou Enlai, the architect of Peking's exercise in Ping Pong diplomacy, has told several recent visitors that there has been "no thaw" at the governmental level. Although the new trade list is clearly a step forward, no one expects a quick change in that chilly situation...
There was some movement on the issues of troop reduction and arms limitation because the Soviets had relaxed their positions. Does this mean that the Kremlin is genuinely seeking better relations with the West? Certainly the Russians have enough reasons to do so. With the recent slight thaw in Sino-American relations, Moscow is worried anew that a Washington-Peking rapprochement may threaten its interests; force reductions in Europe would allow the Soviets to move more troops to the Chinese border. Another factor, which Brezhnev stressed to visiting Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau two weeks ago, is the economic drain...