AHC/PC- China never gets hostile w/ Russia, can it still modernize & grow like OTL?

Did China need to alienate Russia to boost its economy

  • yes

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • no

    Votes: 4 66.7%

  • Total voters
    6

raharris1973

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When Communist China first broke with Russia, it wasn't leaping into the west's waiting arms. In fact it broke to the left of Russia, accusing it of being soft on the west. China cast itse;f in the international wilderness against both Russia and America, for a good decade before rapprochement began with America. Nevertheless, was a conflict with Russia a necessary precondition for China's eventual market and trade based growth?
 
I think China retaining a good relationship with the USSR is contingent on it developing a more Soviet-style communist government rather then the Maoist one it had for years.

Perhaps have a more pro-Soviet leader come to power after Mao's death as the POD. In that case, I see China shedding communism in the 1990s along with the rest of the former Soviet bloc, leaving its economic development a decade behind what it was in OTL.
 
There was emnity between China and Russia even while Stalin was alive. History often portrays the two countries as having split in the late 50's or 1960, but there was already a great deal of distrust between Stalin and Mao.
 
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