Chinese Relations: USA & USSR
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- Chinese Relations: 'Triangular Diplomacy'
- Good relations with the USSR
- Mao based his domestic policies on Stalin's
- Both based on communist ideologies
- The Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance of 1950
- 1954: The Korean War cemented the friendship
- Bad relations with the USSR
- Sino-Soviet split: 1953
- Ussuri River dispute: armed conflict - border disputes finally come to a climax and tensions along the border increase.
- Mao offended by 'de-Stalinisation'
- Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 changed Chinese perception of the Russians.
- "active defence" strategy to deter the USSR doing the same thing to China
- 1968: China encourages Albania and Romania to assert independence from Moscow
- Mao critical of Khruschev
- 1956; Khruschev's secret speech - critical of Stalin, who Mao admires greatly
- 1966: Chinese Cultural Revolution - labelled the USSR as an 'ideological failure'
- Good relations with the USA
- 1969: Rapprochement
- 1971: World Table Tennis Championships brought the nations together
- 'Ping-Pong Diplomacy-
- Trade and travel restrictions were relaxed
- 'Ping-Pong Diplomacy-
- 1971: World Table Tennis Championships brought the nations together
- 1971: Kissenger's visit to China
- 1972: Nixon's visit to China
- 1975: Ford's visit to China
- 1972: Nixon's visit to China
- Links with the USA restored Mao's reputation after the Cultural Revolution.
- Provided opportunities to undermine the Soviets
- The good relationship between China and America put pressure on the USSR, which eventually led to Detente.
- 1969: Rapprochement
- Bad relations with the USA
- War in Vietnam threatened to increase US involvement in the region
- Ideological differences; communism v capitalism
- US support for Taiwan; China and Taiwan in conflict
- October 1958: Taiwan left alone to be used as leverage on USA.
- 1954: China cooperates and cements a friendship with the USSR in the Korean War
- Good relations with the USSR
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