"The New Cold War’s Warm Friends" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Apr 2019 4:41 p.m. PST |
"March 2 marks half a century since Chinese troops opened fire on Soviet border guards on Zhenbao Island, a disputed but strategically irrelevant parcel of land in the Ussuri River, which divides the two countries along their far eastern border. The Chinese assault left several dozen soldiers dead and set off months of hair-trigger alerts and violent clashes along the Soviet-Chinese border. As wars go, the Sino-Soviet clash of 1969 was mercifully contained, with probably no more than a couple hundred soldiers killed. Yet this small conflict transformed the Cold War. As a result of it, both communist powers decided that they needed to improve ties with the United States to counter each other. Over lunch in Washington, a Soviet diplomat asked a U.S. official how the White House would respond if Moscow attacked and destroyed China's small nuclear arsenal. China, still reeling from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, began exploring how to improve ties with the United States as a hedge against Soviet power…."
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| NavyVet | 22 Apr 2019 9:45 a.m. PST |
Russia will regret its current relationship with China. |
| Tango01 | 22 Apr 2019 10:41 a.m. PST |
Are you sure?… (smile)
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