Mr. Safire points out quite correctly that it is the Chinese themselves. and not the Reagan administration. who are to blame for the current tensions between our two countries. By relentlessly harping on the Taiwan issue. by loudly demanding changes in U.S. refugee law. and by clumsily courting the Soviet Union. the Chinese have managed to undermine their own interests. however selfserving. in seeking a closer relationship with the United States. Too often. we hear loud cries from Congress blaming our own country for any setback that occurs in our bilateral relations with other countries. But let us never forget that any substantive relationship is always a twoway street.
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The Chinese are blamed for tensions between the US and China.