CIA: Japan’s Changing Relations With China and the USSR is a Central Intelligence

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Japan’s Changing Relations With China and the USSR is a Central Intelligence Agency research assessment dated February 1981. The paper examines how Tokyo’s diplomatic posture toward Beijing and Moscow shifted during the late‑1970s and early‑1980s, and it evaluates the implications for United States interests in Northeast Asia. This document is notable because it offers a contemporaneous intelligence view of the strategic realignment that shaped the regional balance of power at the height of the Cold War. The assessment was declassified and released to the public through The Black Vault…