Publisher's Synopsis
Few frontier conflicts have had greater impact upon the world politics in our era than the border dispute between the People's Republic of China and the USSR. Having emerged amidst the Sino-Soviet "political debate" in the early 1960s, this dispute has become one of the major causes of the Sino-Soviet rift in the ensuing years and continues to loom as a crucial determinat of the future relationship between these two great powers.;This volume is based upon original research in Chinese, Russian and English sources and stands as a major, new contribution to the field.;Tsien-hua Tsui served as an Officer of the Ministry in Australia and he served for four years in the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa, Canada.