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1989 Soviet-Chinese summit
The obsession with Gorbachev and the nonchalant attitude towards President Bush in the foreign press, and the 1989 Soviet-Chinese summit, as discussed by Alistair Cooke.
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Fri 17 Feb 1989
21:00
BBC Radio 4
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