It's just geopolitics in the end. At the end of the day, polities will still compete for resources and will make morally dubious and ideologically inconsistent alliances for the sake of advancing geopolitical interests. China, Russia, and Iran have absolutely nothing in common outside of some extremely tenuous link of being once ruled by Mongols more than 600 years ago, but they all have a vested interests in sticking together for the sake of opposing the US. Socialism by itself isn't going to somehow make geopolitical rivalry go away or dissolve century-old beefs in the same way transphobia or racism wouldn't instantaneously go away under socialism.

Socialists need to stop viewing everything through an ideological lens. The Sino-Soviet split isn't my team anti-revisionist the other team revisionist. It was honestly mostly geopolitical. At one point, Khrushchev threatened to nuke China, so obvious Mao et al had to do something. This has nothing to do with revisionism or some ideological difference. China just didn't want to get nuked. Did the border clashes between the SU and the PRC happened because of one communist party not understanding Marxism-Leninism well enough or did it happen because of border disagreements the Tsarist Empire and the Qing Dynasty had and which carried over to their successive polities?

In their article about the recent Taiwan visit by Pelosi, the CPP somehow shoehorned in a paragraph about how China doesn't respect the Philippines' maritime territory. Whether this has merit or not, what does this have to do with Taiwan? To me, it just reinforces my point that the beef the CPP has with China isn't actually ideological and more has to do with them believing that China does not respect the Philippines' sovereignty. It wouldn't matter if China is revisionist or state capitalist or feudal or even socialist.

This also tells me that the CPP is probably not going to capture state power anytime soon because they have the luxury of not having to play the geopolitical game. They might shit on the CPC now, but as soon as CPP capture state power by overthrowing some US puppet of a president and have to play the geopolitical game like everyone else, they're going to pivot towards the social-imperialist power for the sake of opposing the imperialist-imperialist power because that's the smart geopolitical move to do.