The meeting that sort of changed the world (The Philippines)

10 Pesos at this Manila bookstore took me back to my teenage time — May of 1989 when another meeting changed the world. After 30 years of animosity, including some close calls of actual conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours, China and the then Soviet Union decided to become friends. A lot did change. Two of China’s conditions for the meeting were the Soviet troop withdrawal from Mongolia, and the Soviet ally Vietnam’s withdrawal from Cambodia.

Can you guess what was on the cover of most current affairs magazines the very next week?