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Sino-Soviet Relations II Nuclear Arms

Presented by: Felix Tan Keng Zhe Yuan Han Kenny Chee. Sino-Soviet Relations II Nuclear Arms . Background Of Sino-Soviet Relations.

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Sino-Soviet Relations II Nuclear Arms

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  1. Presented by: Felix Tan KengZhe Yuan Han Kenny Chee Sino-Soviet Relations II Nuclear Arms

  2. Background Of Sino-Soviet Relations • ‘For the last time, no...we don’t want you here. We’ve had the British and other foreigners on our territories for years now, and we’re not ever going to let anyone use our land for their own purposes again’ - Mao’s response to Khrushchev when he asked for a wireless station on Chinese soil in 1958. What does this tell us about Sino-Soviet relations?

  3. Background Of Sino-Soviet Relations • Arms control and security issues have been at the heart of much of Russian-Chinese disagreement since the opening of the rift in the 1950's • began when the Soviet Union and Communist China used disarmament talk as a way of pointing out issues of major importance in their dispute, of competing for support within the third world and the Communist bloc, and of expressing genuine disagreement over the fundamental causes of the Sino-Soviet rift

  4. Background Of Sino-Soviet Relations • the Chinese Communists formally denounced “The Revisionist Traitor Group of Soviet Leadership." • Situation Worsened

  5. Major Events that affected relationships • Bomb testing • Differing opinions on peaceful coexistence • Relations turned sour

  6. Bomb Testing • People's Republic of China became the fifth nuclear power on October 16, 1964 • detonated a uranium-235 bomb in a test codenamed 596 • the Chinese nuclear deterrent consisted of gravity bombs carried aboard H-6 bomber aircraft, missile systems such as the DF-2, DF-3, and DF-4, and in the later stages of the Cold War, the Type 092 ballistic missile submarine

  7. Differing opinions on peaceful coexistence • People's Republic of China under the leadership of its founder, Mao Zedong, argued that a belligerent attitude should be maintained towards capitalist countries • rejected the peaceful coexistence theory as essentially Marxist revisionism • this intellectual divergence became critical, continuing until the late 1980s — yet was rendered moot with the USSR's dissolution in 1991

  8. Relations Turned Sour • Chairman Mao criticized Premier Khrushchev for withdrawing from fighting the US in the Cuban missile crisis • Khrushchev replied that Mao’s confrontational policies would provoke a nuclear war • USSR sided with India against China in the Sino-Indian War

  9. Relations Turned Sour • PRC published The Chinese Communist Party’s Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement • Chairman Mao asserted that a counter-revolution in the USSR had re-established capitalism there • Chinese and Soviet Communist parties broke relations, and the Warsaw Pact Communist parties followed Soviet suit.

  10. Impacts Of China’s Development of the Nuclear Bomb • indicates the soured relationship between USSR and China. If the USSR and China were in a good relationship, they could trust each other for defence • only soviet nuclear bombs would be required to defend themselves against the US • caused tensions to increase between the two countries • As China is very close to the USSR, the danger of a nuclear strike from China may even outweigh the danger from the US despite the advanced weaponry from the US.

  11. Differences regarding peaceful coexistence with USA • China wanted to maintain a hostile relationship with the US. However, USSR wanted to promote friendly relations with the US • China felt that it has been bullied by the western powers before the second world war, during the opium wars. • also felt that a strong attitude towards the western powers was necessary to prove that it was not weak anymore and that western powers must take note of China in matters that affect China’s national interests.

  12. Differences regarding peaceful coexistence with USA • In contrast, the USSR was a world power. It sees no need to prove itself as a power in the global stage. It has seen the potential destruction that a nuclear world war may cause and thus is more reserved in defending its national interests

  13. Impacts of The Sino-Soviet Alliance • The 2 communist giants now formed a military alliance and established a new economic relationship • The communist bloc now stretched in a single mass from Eastern Europe to the Bering Straits • These events struck fear in the US but admiration in much of Asia • The impact was enormous on international relations and led indirectly to the decision of Stalin to support the invasion of South Korea

  14. Thank You!

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