“Of late, attempts have been made in the USA — at a high level and in a rather cynical form — to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.”

—  Leonid Brezhnev

As quoted in Peace, Détente, and Soviet-American Relations : A Collection of Public Statements (1979), p. 222

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