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Schell on The Long Arc of US-China and Long Reach of Leninism
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The US Response to the Beijing Massacre
Bush sent national security adviser Brent Skokroft secretly to Beijing. He did not even tell Jim Lillie, his ambassador. The striking thing about it was that instead of Deng Xiaoping begging SkokroFT not to cut China off and not to be completely alienated by the massacre,. It was Skokroaft begging Deng Xiaoping not to abandon the core friendship he said President Bush felt with him. And we all know how it ended.
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