The Soviet-American conflflict (the Cold War) made China a temporary US partner in interna!onal affffairs.The apogee of this was Deng Xiaoping's call in January 1979 for the US leaders to create a "united front against hegemony",i.e. against the USSR. In the 1970s East Asia had three key players: the USSR, the USA and China.The deal, which determined the development of the region for decades (the growth of the Chinese economy in exchange for its anti-Soviet foreign policy)was made by Washington and Beijing at the expense of the USSR.Moscow was gradually squeezed out of the region, and drawn into lengthy conflflicts immediately beyond its borders(Afghanistan),or forced to provide large-scale military and economic support to states located much further away(Vietnam).

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