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Article: Marriage of convenience. (Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev; Sino-Soviet relations; includes related article on Chinese daily life)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 15, 1989
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Den and Gorbachev have a vested interest in each other's success
When Deng Xiaoping greets Mikhail Gorbachev next week inside the bright-vermilion walls of Zhongnanhai, Beijing's Kremlin, things will be dramatically different than they were at the last Communist superpower summit three decades ago. Although the first signs of a bitter Sino-Soviet split were evident in 1959, Communism as personified by the charismatic Mao Tsetung and the ebullient Nikita Khrushchev appeared to be an idea whose time had come, The only question was whether the long march into the future would be led by Beijing or by Moscow.
Now, Communism has lost its allure almost ...