“We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.”

—  Zhou Enlai

Concluding his summary of his government’s approach to boundary settlement at Bandung, with a pledge and a warning "How the Sino-Russian BoundaryConflict Was Finally Settled:From Nerchinsk 1689 to Vladivostok 2005 via Zhenbao Island 1969" by Neville Maxwell http://web.archive.org/web/20110607072751/http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no16_2_ses/02_maxwell.pdf.

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