sino-soviet conflict

Foreword: When people consider the closest we’ve been to nuclear war, they often think of the Cuban Missile Crisis, or Able Archer, or even the Petrov Incident. But the real contender not many talk about is the almost-nuking of China in October, 1969. The Soviet Union was potentially only...

Due to disagreements about the approach to communism the soviet union and the peoples republic of china split apart diplomatically. But what if China's attempts to take leadership of the communist world escalated into full out war between china and the USSR? Who would win the war and also how...

So, basically, what if the geopolitical divorce between the USSR and Maoist China in the late 1960's had actually escalated to war, rather than being isolated to a few border skirmishes? Which side would be most likely to win? From the looks of it, the PRC had a large army on paper, but i hear...

September 11, 1969: With a view to easing the tense military confrontation between China and the Soviet Union, Premier Zhou Enlai met Alexei Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR at Beijing Airport and discussed with him the urgent questions in Sino-Soviet relations...