KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: "CNN 20" today, we take a look back at the Sino-Soviet summit.</s>ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>STEVE HURST, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Chairman Deng Xiaoping directing his Soviet guests into place, grasping their hands as if they might get away too quickly. The Chinese leader wants to make sure the world sees this picture: Mikhail Gorbachev on Deng's turf, on Deng's terms, and Gorbachev was happy to be there. Their talks, the first in three decades between the leaders of the world's preeminent communist powers. The two leaders, both reformers in their own right, met for 2 1/2 hours Tuesday morning, a half hour longer than planned. And as they went to lunch, Deng told reporters the talks had gone one. Gorbachev agreed. A quick lesson from the Chinese leader on the use of chopsticks, and Gorbachev dug right in. The Soviet leader seemed a little relieved when the first bite got from plate to mouth successfully. The Chinese have tightly controlled coverage of the Gorbachev visit, but Chinese TV did show a brief segment of this Gorbachev trademark: He stopped his limousine to work the crowd. At his meeting of the day, Chinese party leader Zhao Ziyang told Gorbachev that party relations had truly been normalized with the first handshake shared by the Soviet leader and Deng earlier in the day. Xiao also implied that the aging Deng, thought to be a hardliner on political reform, had, in fact, been the one to allow student protests to go on in Tiananmen Square. Steve Hurst, CNN, Beijing.
CNN 20: Sino-Soviet Summit, May 16, 1989