What if Sino-Vietnamese war in 1979 didn't happen

If this war didn't happen, what would happen on American-Sino relation and would Western new-left kept their faith on China?
 

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Sino-American relations wouldn't change at all. Nobody in America is going to be shedding any tears over China throwing the Pol Pot regime under a Vietnamese bus even if they did support various groups with dubious links to the Khmer Rouge OTL, because Cambodia isn't geopolitically significant enough. Dengism is probably what killed pro-China support in the American far left, not Chinese foreign policy.
 
Sino-American relations wouldn't change at all. Nobody in America is going to be shedding any tears over China throwing the Pol Pot regime under a Vietnamese bus even if they did support various groups with dubious links to the Khmer Rouge OTL, because Cambodia isn't geopolitically significant enough. Dengism is probably what killed pro-China support in the American far left, not Chinese foreign policy.
No, I mean without Sino-Vietnamese War as a prove of loyalty, would America accept China as a far-east ally in OTL?
 
Dengism is probably what killed pro-China support in the American far left, not Chinese foreign policy.

The anti-revisionists disillusionment with China went back at least as far as 1975, when Peking as it was then called sided with the west in the Angolan Civil War. I believe Mao was still officially running China at that point.

In Canada, the CPC-ML began adopting the Albanian critique of China in 1976, a couple of years before Deng took over. Though I don't doubt that Deng's subsequent domestic policies made the various international schisms even worse.
 
This does not dramatically impact Sino-US relations. This war happened in 1979, Sino-US relations had been on a steady upswing for almost a decade.
 
This does not dramatically impact Sino-US relations. This war happened in 1979, Sino-US relations had been on a steady upswing for almost a decade.

Yeah, at most, the US would have viewed the invasion of Vietnam as the icing-on-the-cake of the Sino-US rapprochment, not as a sine qua non for the rapprochment to continue.
 
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