Been listening to the latest blowback, and was a bit astonished to hear that China was a significant player in hosting training camps for the earlier generations of jihadis, but they don't go into a lot of detail on china's motivations or anything. This would have been in the period after mao's death, iirc they said 1979
what's up with that? was the sino soviet split that severe that they sought to undermine and destroy the USSR?
They trained the afghani maoists movements who were against the pro-soviet goverment.
The sino-soviet split didnt happen because Mao called kruschev and breznev a nerd and he just block them, it happen because China didnt summit to the URSS in their revisionist line (anti-stalin line plus a few other things) and breznev then started a border conflict, and then planned an invasion of China with the use of nuclear weapons
Its because of shit like this china was so hostile to the USSR and why Xi jinping called kissinger a friend of china