National interests historically prevail over the much-lauded friendships 'forged in blood' among the three countries China ...

Please listen to ⁠⁠our Sino-Soviet primer episode⁠⁠ and ⁠part one of this discussion⁠ for some background! On this episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek welcome back Jeremy ...

In 1990, in a landmark deal, China became the first export customer for the Soviet Union’s top-tier Su-27 “Flanker” fighter jet, purchasing 24 aircraft. -The deal was driven by China’s urgent need to ...

The role of Kissinger and Nixon’s 1972 diplomatic coup with China in the Sino-Soviet split has been exaggerated. They did not engineer the split but took advantage of it.

Before the Sino-Soviet split became public, Peking used little Albania as a sort of ventriloquist’s dummy. Albania’s fiercely anti-Khrushchev rulers said all the nasty things about Moscow that ...

Sino-Soviet split. But there were points of friction, especially after the death of Stalin. In 1956, then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemned Stalin’s “cult of personality” at an ...

Sino-Soviet Split. But there were points of friction, especially after the death of Stalin. In 1956, then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemned Stalin’s "cult of personality" in an address ...

The Russians claim that 31 Soviet border guards were killed and 14 wounded; the Chinese casualties are unknown. Along any other frontier in the world, the scale of the battle would almost ...

In reality, the idea is a bad one. Most important, the analogy to the Cold War of the 1970s is flawed. Back then, Washington recognized and exploited, rather than produced, a deep Sino-Soviet split to ...

The Sino-Soviet Split, Part 1. On this episode of American Prestige, Jeremy Friedman on the relationship between China and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Share. Copy Link. Facebook.