In the 1980s, China adopted a new foreign policy strategy. As a result, without losing momentum, the Sino-U.S. relations began to move further and further away from the concept of "strategic partnership" to more constructive spheres. Owing to this, relations between the USA and China continued...

According to the author, the present state of the world as a whole, and of the Asia-Pacific Region (APR), in particular, appears to be developing mainly in a direction favouring positive shifts in the Korean Peninsula, on which the prospects for Soviet-South Korean relations largely depend. He...