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communist movement, sees in Soviet policies an
unacceptable desire to secure world domination,
ideological and political. China, which aspired to
the leadership of the Third World and Non-Aligned
movement in the 1950s with Soviet blessing against
Western interests, now seeks to influence the Third
World even more against the Soviet Union than against
the West. There is therefore little prospect of a
substantial improvement of political relations, even
though a recurrence of the fighting which broke out in
1969 may be avoided and there could even be some
improvement in state relations.
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(d) Relations with the West
12. Hostility to the Soviet Union has led China to seek
closer relations with other countries in an adversary
relationship with the Soviet Union. The West in turn
has increasingly seen the value of better relations with
China as a means both of influencing Soviet behaviour
and of taking advantage of Chinese fears of the Soviet
Union to encourage Chinese interest in stability else-
when especially in South-East Asia a process marked
inter alia by China's entry into the UN in 1971,
Fresident Nixon's 1972 visit to China and our own exchange
of Ambassadors. The Chinese now support Western European
integration and acknowledge the importance of the NATO
Alliance because they stand up to and tie down the
Russians in the West. They also privately accept an
American presence in Japan and South Korea as a means
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