The World - News from Aug. 22, 1986
Chinese and Soviet border guards exchanged fire along the western sector of their frontier in July, and one Chinese guard was killed and another was injured, a Japanese newspaper reported. The Yomiuri Shimbun, in a dispatch from Peking, quoted an unidentified source as disclosing the July 12 clash in Xinjiang province. Minor clashes often have occurred along the tense border between the two Communist giants. In late July, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in a speech in Vladivostok, called for better relations between Moscow and Peking.
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