Sentence:  The effect of Chou En-lai 's clash with Khrushchev , together with the everlasting attacks on Molotov + Co. , has <WSD>shifted</WSD> the whole attention of the world , including that of the Soviet people , from the `` epoch-making '' twenty-year program to the present Soviet-Chinese conflict . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make a shift in or exchange of; then we switched"