A Sino-Soviet powwow amid continuing frictions
"They are as different as fire and water," is the saying about the Chinese and Soviet brands of Communism. That incompatibility of elements could not have been more apparent than in Indochina, where Vietnamese troops launched new attacks against insurgents in Cambodia and thus heated up the conflict by proxy between China and the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia.
Nothing could have been less auspicious for the start of a bold, face-to-face powwow in Moscow between China and the Soviet Union aimed at patching up some...
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