No Sino-Soviet Split impact on Cold war geopolitics

What would be the impact on the Cold war without a Sino-Soviet Split

How would this impact Indo-China and other proxy conflicts

Would Japan remilitarize earlier
 
In the event of a continued Sino-Soviet alliance, how plausible would it be that Communists still come into power in Cambodia, following the end of the Vietnam War? Because if there's no distinction bewtween pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese, that would probably butterfly away a lot of the OVERT hostility between Vietnam and Cambodia. (I say "overt", because there would probably still be a lot of sublimated nationaiism on both sides, but they wouldn't feel at liberty to act on those impulses.)
 
Okay. So two Soviet-allied regimes, side by side.

What sort of Communists come to power in Cambodia in that situation? A group less wackadoodle than the ones who came to power IOTL?
 
Do you mean that the Sino-Soviet split happened during the Vietnam vs. Cambodia conflict of the 1970s? I think the split is generally dated as occuring before that.

If you mean China firmly aligning itself in the western camp, yeah, that took place after Mao met Nixon, so probably near the beginning of Vietnam vs. Cambodia.
 
I feel there will always be a Sino-Soviet split at some point, but a delay is likely the case here. It would do wonders to the Chinese economy. (OTL it stopped the bulk of China's trade as well as cutting them off from Soviet aid.) So ALT China would be much further ahead for a while scientifically and its industry would be greatly improved as well. Best come to best you avoid Cultural Revolution. I say again, you may avoid the never ending nightmare that was OTL 1960s China. (Something that scared Brezhnev and Kim Il-sung to death.)

Both the USSR and PRC would agree on suppressing the Khmer Rouge before they get fairly started.
 
Do you mean that the Sino-Soviet split happened during the Vietnam vs. Cambodia conflict of the 1970s? I think the split is generally dated as occuring before that.
I was talking about the split within the Cambodian communist party which lead to pro-Vietnamese Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party and the Anti-Vietnamese Khmer Rouge
 
I feel there will always be a Sino-Soviet split at some point, but a delay is likely the case here. It would do wonders to the Chinese economy. (OTL it stopped the bulk of China's trade as well as cutting them off from Soviet aid.) So ALT China would be much further ahead for a while scientifically and its industry would be greatly improved as well. Best come to best you avoid Cultural Revolution. I say again, you may avoid the never ending nightmare that was OTL 1960s China. (Something that scared Brezhnev and Kim Il-sung to death.)

Both the USSR and PRC would agree on suppressing the Khmer Rouge before they get fairly started.

This is assuming China can still develop it's industry as effectively if it's tied into the Soviet economic Bloc. The presence of large Russian imports and continued protection relations is going to take alot of drive out of the economic and political motivations for "self stregthening", since there's no need to become self relient for security or stability of supplies sake. We could just as easily see a China go into an import trap/ fall into "Third World is" as Maoist theory suggested
 
Any reason why ?


Why would they ?

There will always be issues in the way. ( long border, border issues, ideology differences, the fact that China wanted to pursue a more independent policy, was large enough to buck Moscow's line, etc.) The big thing to delay it is either overthrow Khrushchev early on. (Stopping De-Stalinization.) or off Mao and allow Lin Biao to take power.

Because the Khmer Rouge was totally insane?

This is assuming China can still develop it's industry as effectively if it's tied into the Soviet economic Bloc. The presence of large Russian imports and continued protection relations is going to take alot of drive out of the economic and political motivations for "self stregthening", since there's no need to become self relient for security or stability of supplies sake. We could just as easily see a China go into an import trap/ fall into "Third World is" as Maoist theory suggested

Could have China industrializes along the lines of Chen Yun's proposed economic plans, which calls for continued emphasis on light manufacturing. This means that there is an acute demand for capital goods in China, which really only the Soviet Union will be willing to provide in the 1960s. China therefore cannot afford to piss off the Soviet Union. (Not Third World.)
 
What would be the impact on the Cold war without a Sino-Soviet Split

How would this impact Indo-China and other proxy conflicts

Would Japan remilitarize earlier

It depends on how you get no Sino-Soviet Split, I'm writing what I might use for a possible Master's or Doctor's thesis on this topic so I'm willing to say as long as Mao Zedong lives and in control of the CCP this is inevitable. Mao successfully leading the Chinese revolution created an alternative to what the Soviets promoted as the way forward for a communist revolution. Mind you getting a Communist revolution in China by the Soviet playbook is really difficult.

Assuming a magic butterfly net, and there is just no Sino-Soviet Split. Geopolitically this leaves the Second World as the U.S initially thought it to be, a monolith. North Vietnam would be initially stable in that the North First and South First factions would not have the Soviets or China backing their specific camp. Albania would remain in the Soviet camp, even with rapprochement with Yugoslavia. Romania and North Korea would be limited in what it could do domestically, and Kim Il Sung might not remain in power. What this means for Cambodia and Laos depends, if they do go, Communist, they would be more orthodox-Marxist-Leninists than Maoists.
 
It's doubtful that Japan would ever seriously remilitarize postwar. The question for China is if they'll still go their own path or start to toe the Soviet line a bit more, and if other nations will still be influenced by China. Mao reacted very violently to Khrushchev's destalinization speech, thinking it was mocking him.

The Khmer Rouge's existence will be thrown into question, as mentioned by other posters.

Presumably, the Chinese will still concentrate on attracting like-minded agrarian communist nations, and help train African revolutionaries. North Vietnam will have an easier time getting supplies.
 
Would this due to different leaders or just a more united communist movement

I'm assuming magic butterflies unless your specific with how the split does not happen. What made Maoism appealing is China won their revolution without having to follow the Soviet model of coalition governments, they won by force. Assuming somehow China goes Communist by the Soviet methods then there is no chance for China to a become an alternative model for Marxist-Leninist states.
 
Because the Chinese armed and financed mugabe. The Soviet’s and the west supported Nkomo’s Zimbabwe African people’s union, or Abel muzorewa. If they were not split, Nkomo might come on top.
 
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