2. China's foreign policy (1949 - 1976)
Although it might have been expected that China after 1949 would ally with the Soviet Union against the US, in fact divisions between China and the USSR quickly opened up. Thus this period saw conflict between both China and the USSR as well as between the US and China. Immediately after 1949, China was supported economically by the Soviet Union. However, the underlying tensions between Stalin and Mao and between the...