SINO-SOVIET RIVALRY IN KABUL

In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Heft 280, S. 434-442

Abstract

ARTICLE SURVEYS BOTH CHINA'S AND THE SOVIET UNION'S POLICY TOWARDS AFGHANISTAN, NOTING THEIR COMMON APPRAISAL OF THE COUNTRY IN GEO-POLITICAL, REGIONAL AND EXTRA-REGIONAL TERMS. THE AUTHOR FOCUSES ON AN EXAMINATION OF THE RESPONSES OF CHINA AND THE USSR TO KABUL'S RELATIONS WITH THE US SINCE THE MID-1950'S.