'In the grim reality of actual invasions and military clashes, amid the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, and on a planet that's seen better days, the very nature of geopolitics is likely to be up for grabs.'
, and missiles. As the globe's top communist, Stalin was"the boss" and Mao came to Moscow as essentially a supplicant.During his two-month trip to Moscow starting in December 1949, Mao sought desperately needed economic aid to rebuild his ravaged land and military support for the liberation of the island of Taiwan. In a seemingly euphoric telegram sent to his comrades in Beijing, Mao"Arrived in Moscow on the 16th and met with Stalin for two hours at 10 p.m.
With Russia giving up its territorial claims in exchange for assurances about demilitarizing the long border between the two countries, their leaders signed a Treaty of Friendship and Alliance in February 1950. It, in turn, sparked a sudden flow of Soviet aid to China whose new constitution hailed its"indestructible friendship" with the Soviet Union.
Over the next four years, those initial nuclear tensions grew into an open Sino-Soviet split. In September 1959, Khrushchev visited Beijing for a disastrous seven-hour meeting with Mao. In 1962, Mao finally ended diplomatic relations entirely, blaming Moscow for failing to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. during that year's Cuban missile crisis.
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