two contrasting commencement addresses a half century apart
US President John F. Kennedy meets with Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschchev in Vienna in 1961. ( US State Department) . . ..…
US President John F. Kennedy meets with Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschchev in Vienna in 1961. ( US State Department) . . ..…
Publishing nine articles consecutively to criticize a strategic rival was a tactic previously adopted by the CCP during rising tensions with the Soviet Union back in 1966. “Both of us [Soviet Union and CCP] said a lot of words which are nonsense [in those commentaries],” Deng..…
The Economist points out that in the late ‘80s, in nominal terms Soviet-American trade was $2bn a year. ... Beijing may not have the same ideological ambitions as the Soviet Union, but it does threaten US primacy.” . ..…