Chinese leadership and by Khrushchev are not known to us. But the only fundamental criterion, I emphasize once more, is the right of peoples to determine their own fate, The problem of boundary lines. and similar issues are heritages of the past or arise in the process of constructing the socialist society, The workers states should work out. some kind of international law and institutions: independent of the state structures to which such questions could be submitted and resolved acoording to the criteria of socialist democracy.
Unfortunately, these contradictions are now being exacerbated by the ruling bureaucracies. However, it seems improbable to us that the current tensions involving territorial questions between the Soviet Union and China could degenerate into an armed conflict, al+ though the dispute has been embittered in a dangerous way.
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We are confident that the current crisis of the Communist movement will, after sharp struggles,:end with the removal of Stalinism and all the gross bureaucratic deformations, One of the consequences will be a great improvement in relations among the workers states, But this outcome is still not something immediate,