Deng Unwilling to See Gorbachev
Associated Press
BEIJING —
China’s senior leader, Deng Xiaoping, said Friday he won’t meet with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev until Moscow brings about a withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia.
Deng told Yoshio Sakurauchi, the former Japanese foreign minister, that Gorbachev rejected the call for the troop withdrawal, the official New China News Agency reported.
There have been no meetings between top Soviet and Chinese leaders since Moscow and Beijing fell out in 1960 over ideological and strategic differences.
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