Sino-Soviet split is now irreparable
LONDON (UPI)
Communist China has ruled out any negotiated settlement with the Soviet Union as long as the present Russian leadership remains in power, diplomatic sources said Sunday.
The present border fighting is not expected to continue, but tension is likely to remain and possibly explode into new sporadic flareups along the 4,000 mile-long disputed border, the sources said.
Communist China has let it be known among some of the Communist East European countries that there can be no reconciliation with the present Kremlin rulers, "in any circumstances," the sources said. Peking considers them untrustworthy and hostile to the point of harboring aggressive designs against China.
Informants said representatives who recently visited Peking came away with the impression that Chinese suspicion of Russian intentions and hostility toward the present Kremlin rulers exceeds that against the United States.
They also concluded that even
the disappearance from the political scene of Chairman Mao Tse-tung would not materially alter Peking's hostile stance against Russia, at least not for some time to come.
The hostile Chinese attitude goes back to the mid-1950s when Russia, after helping Peking in the nuclear field, suddenly hailted all assistance. Soviet scientists who had worked in Red China were recalled and Chinese scientists working in Russia were discreetly squeezed out.
The Russians also pulled several thousand experts out of China who helped with industrial development and had worked on Soviet-organized projects, leaving them unfinished.
Russians claimed at the time the Chinese stole some of their atomic blueprints and secrets. More recently they claimed the Chinese had intercepted some of their "SAM" ground-to-air rockets, en route from Russia to North Vietnam through Chinese territory, to copy them.
Negotiators await Nixon Viet policy
PARIS (UPI) — North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front negotiators expect President Nixon's meeting with his top Saigon aides to provide some key to his Vietnam policy.
Communist sources said their two delegations believe Nixon is on the verge of making the crucial decision on whether to pursue the "victory" policy of his predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson, or whether to try to scale down U.S. involvement in Vietnam with a view to disengaging from the war.
The two Communist delegations are reliably reported to be concerned over what they consider signs that Nixon is coming around to his military commanders, who insist that the war can be won if the United States continues its present policy.
after some tentative contacts and abortive negotiations.
Communist camp nears dissolution
MILAN (UPI) — Communist theoretician Milovan Djilas said Sunday the Sino-Soviet battles on the Ussuri River border signals the inevitable breakup of the once-monolithic Communist camp.
"With the Chinese-Russian conflict, the split in the Communist world movement is completed . . .," said Djilas, former vice president of Yugoslavia, in a copyrighted article in the newspaper Corriere Della Sera.
Peking soon thereafter began to denounce Communist Party Chairman Leonid I. Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny. It has since stepped up the attacks, calling them "Fascist," "gangsters" and associates of the United States in the crime of imperialism.
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's assertion last week that there could be no significant military cutback in Vietnam for at least two years came as an unpleasant shock to the Communist negotiators.
He said the clashes on the Sino-Soviet border did away with both the Communists' "illusions, and the fears of their adversaries, in regard to any real unity—not only ideological—of the Communist movement.
"Nothing can any longer halt the breakdown of communism into various national movements and then of the national movements into diverse trends," he wrote.
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"The exchange of gunfire between China and the Soviet Union . . . has very deep roots and foreshadows worldwide changes," Dijlas said.
Peking's anger reached a climax when Nikita Khrushchev, then Soviet premier and party chief, announced plans to meet with President Eisenhower. Such was the reaction from Peking that Khrushchev dashed to Peking to try to pacify the Mao regime, but failed.
Western diplomats said Nixon can expect no real negotiations to develop if he endorses his defense secretary's line.
revisionist. Khrushchev, evidently realizing the extent of the break, showed every sign of a major Soviet policy reorientation, away from the Far East and, especially after the Cuban missile crisis, toward some form of accommodation with the United States.
Beginning of the break
When he was ousted from power, the present Kremlin trio at once set out to reverse the Soviet China policy and made new approaches to Peking.
This, in effect, was the beginning of the formal break. Several subsequent Soviet attempts to mend fences failed. Peking decried Khrushchev as a
The diplomatic informants said with this background there is not the slightest chance of an accommodation between Peking and the present Kremlin rulers.
It took only a comparatively short time for Peking to turn its wrath against the new leadership
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