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**9mm_fan** · 08-15-2007, 10:26 PM

One should negotiate from a position of strength and the willingness to use it.
Note the success Nixon had with Maoist China, and remember only tough people get respect because only tough people deserve it.

Was it so much strength or just fear and opportunity in China of Soviet encirclement and, ultimately, domination? They had their little war over an island, then the Koreans and Vietnamese were pro Soviet, in fact the latter attacking Maoists in Cambodia. Wasn't it mostly just timing?

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9mm_fan Join Date May 2007 Age 54 Posts 5,191 Senior Member	One should negotiate from a position of strength and the willingness to use it. Note the success Nixon had with Maoist China, and remember only tough people get respect because only tough people deserve it. Was it so much strength or just fear and opportunity in China of Soviet encirclement and, ultimately, domination? They had their little war over an island, then the Koreans and Vietnamese were pro Soviet, in fact the latter attacking Maoists in Cambodia. Wasn't it mostly just timing?
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