Was the Sino-Soviet split inevitable?

raharris1973

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For a nation that has spend over a hundred years under western imperialism, Soviet Union’s economic and military dominance over China in the 1950s seemed too reminiscent of that old age.

I think this shows it's hard for an outside power to have a comfortably working alliance for any lengthy period of time with a newly invigorated country that is making its comeback, finding its feet, and rebounding from psychological scars from imperialism.

The USSR found opportunities to gain alliances with China and Egypt after each had a revolution. They invested alot in the relations. But all along the latter countries were only doing it to send a much bigger eff u to the United States and United Kingdom respectively. Once that point had been made for a decade (for China) or two (for Egypt) resentment turned against the new Soviet ally. It got to the point where anger at the foreigner closest to their face, in this case the ally, got so escalated that they were both able to execute a 180 degree turn and make up with the US.
 
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