Sino-Soviet split
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The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the Cold War. This was primarily caused by divergences that arose from the
Mao Zedong (left) and Nikita Khrushchev (right) in Beijing, 1957
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, 1945
The Sino-Soviet split initially arose in the late 1950s over the ideological divergence between Soviet leader Khrushchev's policies of De-Stalinisation and peaceful coexistence and Mao's affirmation of Stalinism and confrontation with the West. By the late 1970s, the positions were reversed; the New Cold War was beginning with the Soviet Union and the West in confrontation and China having achieved rapprochement with the United States.
A meeting of some Chinese and Soviet leaders in 1958. From left to right: Ye Jianying, Peng Dehuai, Nikolai Bulganin, and Nikita Khrushchev.
Sino-Albanian split
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The Sino-Albanian split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and the People's Republic of China in the period 1972–1978.
The Albanian leader Enver Hoxha, pictured in 1971
Enver Hoxha and Zhou Enlai in 1966