Aim: A Bi-Polar, Tri-Polar, or Multi-Polar World?

The Effects of US-China Rapprochment

Stalin and Mao Chinese postage stamp

“Mao Zedong Thought” – Mao believed, that after Stalin’s death he (and China) should

lead the socialist “camp”

The Soviets disagreed – and pulled their engineers from a joint project to build the first

bridge across the Yangtze River

In the early 1960s, the Soviets and Chinese armies

fought a series of border skirmishes

Ten years later, the United States tried

to play one off against the other

“Détente”: Nixon Goes to China