A Russo-Chinese War in the late 60s??

In OTL the Russians and Chinese almost went to war in the late 1960s.

But what if had went to war. How could this had effected the Eastern block war effort in Vietnam?
 
The North Vietnamese are going to be in deep trouble; half of their war materiel came from the Soviets and the Warsaw Pact, while the other half came from the PRC. Any kind of U.S. and ARVN offensive to wipe out the NVA and VC base areas in SVN is going to be a lot easier (no cakewalk, given the tenacity of the NVA), but without resupply of ammo, spare parts, SAM missiles, etc., the NVN's war effort is going to sputter to a halt. And then it's Nixon's turn to tell Hanoi "Okay, ready to settle, on the condition that you give up conquering the South anytime soon?"

I read some stuff on the near-war in Grad School; supposedly Gromyko called Kissinger (he was National Security Adviser in 1969) and asked for America's position should the two Communist giants go to war. Kissinger said "give me a few days", and he went and talked to Nixon. Kissinger called Gromyko back a week later and said that while officially, America would declare its neutrality. But privately, we would sit back and applaud while the two Communist juggernauts engage in the greatest slaughter since Ghengis Khan (and slaughter there would have been).
 
I'm not sure CIA could. Should they sent special forces to provoke fighting? Manipulate the leadership in either China or Kremlin? There is one possiblity, CIA can trick KGB into thinking China set up the Kennedy assasination to provoke WWIII but, that most likely, should have been planned much earlier.

As for negative outcomes for the US, tension all over the world would be much higher and a incident would have much graver consequenses, or so I'm told. Kissinger also speculated that it was in the US best interest to have a independent China (as a counterbalance to Soviet I think).

Another problem would have been a unstable China. Would it have destabilised all of Asia?
 
I remember reading about the Soviet contact with US years ago. Basically Brezhnev was asking Nixon to look the other way whilst they took out the Chinese nuclear capability.

Nixon said no. After that came the "ping pong" diplomacy and Nixon's visit to China.
 
I remember reading about the Soviet contact with US years ago. Basically Brezhnev was asking Nixon to look the other way whilst they took out the Chinese nuclear capability.

Nixon said no. After that came the "ping pong" diplomacy and Nixon's visit to China.

Nixon was an idiot cause his wide-opening to China have physically assulted the American Economy to this date. He also lost us the Vietnam war!

Damn You Nixon!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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