A Study Of Reports On The Sino-Soviet Conflict In New York Times (1959-1969)

Based on the reports of the Sino-Soviet conflict in the New York Times from 1959 to 1969,this paper attempts to understand the relationship between China and the Soviet Union by analyzing the original archives and materials by combining the decrypted "Foreign Relations of the United States".Alliance to the relationship between the rupture of the historical process of assessment and understanding,to explain the "New York Times" as the representative of the traditional American mainstream media dominant position and its US government intelligence assessment,the relationship between government policies.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,the dissertation is composed of five chapters.The first chapter is mainly a summary of Sino-Soviet relations based on the coverage of New York Times.The following three chapters elaborate Sino-Soviet relations on the different stages according to the New York Times.Chapter II mainly analyzes the changes in Sino-Soviet relations and the Albanian issue caused by the Sino-Indian border conflict and the contradictions and differences between China and the Soviet Union.It has revealed its concern on the initial situation of differences between China and the Soviet Union.Chapter III elaborates nuclear weapons developed by China and contradictions and differences on the issue of "peaceful coexistence" between these two countries.It has summarized that the Sino-Soviet expand the stance and public tendency.Chapter IV expounds the reports and exemplifies the conflict between China and the Soviet Union in Xinjiang and Zhenbao Island during their broken relationship.Chapter V compares the public opinion with US government intelligence assessment.Through the above analysis,this paperhas concluded that American public opinion represented by the mainstream media is generally consistent with the US government's intelligence assessment and has an impact on government policy in some cases.