Mao definitely billed China and himself as the leaders of world Communism and particularly the example for Asia, Africa and Latin America, as opposed to the revisionist Soviets.
They were scared. The SU openly talked of a nuclear attack on China in a CC meeting, and it got filtered back to Mao. That said, Deng was head of the negotiations and heavily favoured the split. After this, and more so after Nixon in China developed a detente with the US they began to do whatever they thought they had to to maintain their independent policy against the SU.
Khruschev undoubtedly was revisionist and a bad choice in many ways, but there's a saying Catholics have, "Better to be a heretic than a schismatic." Unless someone has gone full Pol Pot, don't fucking split.
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Mao definitely billed China and himself as the leaders of world Communism and particularly the example for Asia, Africa and Latin America, as opposed to the revisionist Soviets.
They were scared. The SU openly talked of a nuclear attack on China in a CC meeting, and it got filtered back to Mao. That said, Deng was head of the negotiations and heavily favoured the split. After this, and more so after Nixon in China developed a detente with the US they began to do whatever they thought they had to to maintain their independent policy against the SU.
Khruschev undoubtedly was revisionist and a bad choice in many ways, but there's a saying Catholics have, "Better to be a heretic than a schismatic." Unless someone has gone full Pol Pot, don't fucking split.
I'm not sure, but I'll look into what their contemporary justification was if you specify which support specifically you are talking about?
Only thing I can think of would be if they were trying to curry favor with the Americans to eventually open up trade relations.