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Aim: A Bi-Polar, Tri-Polar, or Multi-Polar World?. The Effects of US-China Rapprochment. Stalin and Mao Chinese postage stamp. “ Mao Zedong Thought ” – Mao believed, that after Stalin’s death he (and China) should lead the socialist “camp”.
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Aim: A Bi-Polar, Tri-Polar, or Multi-Polar World? The Effects of US-China Rapprochment
“Mao Zedong Thought” – Mao believed, that after Stalin’s death he (and China) should lead the socialist “camp”
The Soviets disagreed – and pulled their engineers from a joint project to build the first bridge across the Yangtze River
In the early 1960s, the Soviets and Chinese armies fought a series of border skirmishesTen years later, the United States tried to play one off against the other