The circumstances that let the U.S. play China against the Soviet Union in the Cold War no longer exist. The ideological struggle driving the Sino-Soviet split stopped mattering in the end.

Kirby, William C. "The Two Chinas in the Global Setting: Sino-Soviet and Sino-American Cooperation in the 1950s." In Re-examining the Cold War: U.S. China Diplomacy, 1954-1973, edited by Robert Ross, ...

Moscow will honor all its commitments to Beijing, unlike the West in its promises to the USSR, the foreign minister has ...

This Sino-Russian alliance would have been unimaginable in 1969, when the Soviet Union (Russia) had 42 divisions — more than 1 million troops — on the border ... The conflict ended in two ...

Pp. xvi, 400. Map, appends., notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 0700623752 Chinese and Soviet Military Performance in a Forgotten War The 1929 Sino-Soviet War is about the power struggle between ...