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1970s short story where USA wants to terraform Mars, Communist China wants to settle Mars via pantropy, USSR is defunct

I think you're looking for "Deadlock" by Robert and Barbara Silverberg, Astounding, January 1959. It was reprinted in the Silverberg collection The Shores of Tomorrow (1976). Quoting the ...
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A planet on the edge between anaerobic and aerobic life forms. Possibly by Asimov

This is "Founding Father" by Asimov, originally published in the October 1965 issue of Galaxy. An exploratory spacecraft of the Galactic Corps, charged with opening up planets for human ...
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