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China-U.S.-Soviet Relations (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Dec. 3, 1981
Report Number IB79115
Authors Robert G. Sutter, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The debate over American-Chinese-Soviet relations is not new but has existed at least since President Nixon made the American opensing to China and prompted strategists in the West, as well as in Moscow and Peking, to begin to think in terms of a triangular relationship among the three large powers. Americans were unable to come to a consensus on how the United States should behave in the triangular relationship, and they disagreed particularly on what effects a forthcoming American China policy -- a U.S. "tilt" toward China -- would have on broader U.S. interests vis-a-vis the Soviet Union.