Playing for Time?
Chou En-Iai and Kosygin have taken the world by surprise by their meeting at Peking airport. The meeting came in the midst of growing rumours of possibilities of a large-scale Sino-Soviet clash or even a pre-emptive Soviet attack on China’s nuclear installations in Sinkiang. From talk of a pre-emptive attack to a summit was an anti-climactic change indeed.
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