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September 10, 1975	Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the GDR, Far East Department, 'Information about Current Problems of the Domestic and Foreign Policy of the PR China' A report by the East German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, discussing the shifting anti-Socialist and anti-Soviet attitudes amongst Chinese leadership. The majority of focus is given to China's military and foreign policy, specifically their efforts to strengthen military capabilities and their claims to territories held by neighboring states.
January 24, 1974	Letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Viet-Nam Vuong Van Bac requests that the United Nations Security Council take up the disputes over the Spratly and Paracel Islands.
January 21, 1974	Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs disputes the Republic of Vietnam's dispatching of naval vessels to the Paracel and Spratly Islands.
January 20, 1974	Letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Vietnam Vuong Van Bac offers another briefl on China's maneuvers in the South China Sea.
January 20, 1974	Letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Vietnam Vuong Van Bac briefs the Secretary General on China's maneuvers in the South China Sea.
January 18, 1974	Note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Viet-Nam Vuong Van Bac of the Republic of Vietnam rejects China's claims over the Spratly and Paracel Islands.
November 30, 1982	Statement by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on the Territorial Sea Baseline of Viet Nam Vietnam submits its territorial claims to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.
August 30, 1982	Note of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China dated 25 August 1982 to the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam in China China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs complains that the Vietnamese military has continued to intrude into Chinese territory and to attack Chinese fishing vessels at sea.
October 1, 1979	Letter dated 1 October 1979 from the Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General Ha Van Lau transmits "Viet Nam's Sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa Archipelagoes" to the United Nations.
February 26, 1989	Memorandum of Conversation: President Bush's Meeting with Chairman Deng Xiaoping of the People's Republic of China, February 26, 1989, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Conversation between Deng Xiaoping and President George Bush on Sino-US relations. Deng expressed the hope that the bilateral relationship would develop in a "new pattern" based on mutual trust, mutual support, and minimizing as much as possible mutual problems. They also discussed the continued tensions between China and the Soviet Union,