The Soviet Concept of Peaceful Coexistence: Some Theoretical and Semantic Problems

…we are prepared to normalize relations with China on the basis of principles of peaceful coexistence. Furthermore it is possible to declare with confidence: if in Peking they will return to politics genuinely based on Marxism-Leninism, if they abandon the hostile course vis-ä-vis the socialist countries, [if they] place themselves on the path of co-operation and solidarity with the socialist world, then an appropriate response will be forthcoming from our side and the possibility will present itself for the development of good relations between the USSR and PRC to correspond with the principles of socialist internationalism.