The World - News from Jan. 11, 1988
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Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev has again proposed a summit meeting with China, calling it a “logical development” in the improving relations between the two Communist giants after three decades of strain. In an interview with the Chinese magazine Liaowang that was carried by the official Soviet Tass news agency, Gorbachev repeated a proposal made late last year for a meeting with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. China urged that obstacles in the Sino-Soviet relationship be removed. Moscow and Beijing have improved trade and begun border talks since Gorbachev came to power, but ties between the two ruling Communist parties are still dormant.
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