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...concern about the burgeoning power of Japan?all these factors led to the Chinese summit last February, with its astonishing tableaux of Nixon walking the Great Wall, of Nixon toasting Chou. The genius of the Nixon-Kissinger policy was its sensitivity to thinking in Moscow and Peking. That startling thaw between the U.S. and China deeply disconcerted the Soviets...
Anxious to quiet its Western Europe borders, Russia had been diligently courting Willy Brandt and other leaders in the hope of solidifying the status quo in Europe. But the Washington-Peking tie also made a U.S.-Soviet thaw imperative from Moscow's standpoint, which is precisely what Nixon and Kissinger had planned. In a sense, Nixon vaulted over the Western Europeans to establish his goal: improved ties with Russia. From this triangular power play emerged continued improvements in relations and slowly expanding trade with China, and the series of agreements, including a massive trade pact, with Russia. It opened...
...civilized people are pleased to call primitive. The author, who knows Africa well and has written of it memorably in The Lost World of the Kalahari, argues in a passionate introduction that the nature of primitive Africa must somehow be recorded so it will "always be there to help thaw the frozen imagination of our civilized systems so that some sort of spring can come again to the minds...
...curious fact that baboons teach their young to count aloud to the number three (but not beyond, because to baboons all numbers higher than three are simply "a hell of a lot"). Van der Post is right: the reader finds with great pleasure that such knowledge does thaw the civilized imagination...
...added up to the beginnings of a thaw in relations between the two countries. Even if the thaw continues, both sides would have to concede a good deal more before diplomatic relations could be resumed. For openers, Nixon would most likely have to lift the U.S. ban on imports of Cuban sugar, and Castro would have to ease up on exporting subversion to other Latin American countries...