Sentence examples for detente without from inspiring English sources
Richard Nixon, who possibly knew China better than any other US president noted that "Detente without deterrence leads to appeasement, and deterrence without detente leads to unnecessary confrontation".
But because China's autocratic communist regime knows only the language of force when it comes to the South China Sea, and because of the high stakes involved in the strategic Western Pacific region, it may be better to threaten deterrence -- even at the cost of detente -- than to offer detente without the will for deterrence.
Writer says that according to Party line these days, both dissidence within the Soviet Union and criticism without must be suppressed in the name of detente.
Though both leaders were quick to play down any talk of detente, recent announcements in both Tel Aviv and Damascus suggest that talks "without preconditions" may not be far off.
Khrushchev tried another method, detente.
And if not that, detente.
As we see it, detente is not so much an issue as a kind of weather report, politically speaking, of which one may make what one will, with or without consistency.
Ascribes fall to U.S.-Soviet detente.
