War Between Russia and China

The Urgent overpowering question that dominates the Asian Heartland today is simple and terrible: Will there be War Between Russia and China? As an Experienced firsthand observer Harrison E. Salisbury has seen the Evidence of coming war: Hundreds of thousand of Troops Stationed at strategic points; massive installations across Siberia; Mongolia being used as a training ground.To the average American the most mysterious aspect of the steady deterioration of relations between Russia and China is what the quarrel is all about. Why should they fight? What are the issues? What does either side have to gain.In this book Harrison E. Salisbury goes behind these questions. He discusses the background of Russia and China The origins of the conflict going back as far as the Mongol invasion and the gradual incursion of the Russians into the Eastern territories up to the nineteenth century. He looks at the real nature of the relations between the two great Communist parties from the days of Borodin through the Stalin and post-Stalin periods. He discusses past Russian Campaigns in Central Asia and the Far East and the more contemporary conflicts political ideological and military. He desdribes the forces in Asia which can be expected to be set in motion by this conflict and he closes with a study of U.S. policy in the midst of this dangerous context.Pulitzer Prize-winner Harrison E. Salisbury has here written a thoughtful timely book. It is Vital reading if we are to understand the basis of the Russian-Chinese conflict. America may be forced to pay attention sooner than many think.