EASC 160gm 1st Edition Lecture 10 Outline of Last Lecture I. CCP VictoryII. GMD DefeatIII. China pre-1949IV. Early PRCV. Five Year PlanVI. Great Leap ForwardOutline of Current Lecture I. Cold WarII. Foreign RelationsIII. Bandung ConferenceIV. Sino-Soviet TiesCurrent LectureOverview- 1949 proved pivotal in changing the dynamics of post-World War II international relations- the People’s Republic of China(PRC) replaces the Republic of China (ROC) after the Chinese Communists - Nationalists are driven to Taiwan- Cold war policy has several distinctive stages1949-1959- Mao Zedong announces that New China would support the Soviet Union in internationalaffairs- The Truman administration settles on a policy of non-recognition of the PRCo As the United States had been supporting the Chinese Nationalists during the Chinese civil war, and o Washington refused to cut off relations with the Nationalist government in Taiwano CCP regarded the U.S.as a serious threat to the PRC- Beijing was seeking an alliance with the Soviet Union to offset the U.S. threato Chinese and Soviet leaders signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship Alliance, and Mutual Assistance on February 14, 1950o alliance was mainly a military agreemento committed the two sides to come to each other’s aid if either were attacked by Japan or the United States.- outbreak of the Korean War o disrupted any possible stabilization of the Sino-American relations PRC and the United States would be locked into a deadly three-year war in the Korean peninsula from June 1950 to July 1953.  PRC as a major threat to its key interest in Asia, and to the security of Japan Sino-Soviet alliance worked reasonably well as the Soviet Union provided China with air support during Korean War and a great deal of military supplies and economic aid- Sino-Soviet relationso top priority of the PRC’s diplomacyo contacts between the two governments were frequent, and bilateral negotiationswere often conducted between top leaderso shift in relationship second half of the 1950s- the CCP started to disagree with the Soviets on how to evaluate Stalin and the direction which the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was leading the International Communist movement- Chinese quarreled with the Soviets over the issue of de-Stalinizationo the USSR’s refusal to support China during its conflict with India in the second half of 1959 and early 1960o July 1960: Moscow announced the abrupt removal of Soviet advisers and technical personnel from Chinao By the early 1960s, the Sino-Soviet dispute spread from ideology to state-to-state relations. Tensions rose along theSino-Soviet bordero Sino-Soviet alliance collapsesBandung Conference- meeting between African and Asian states- Non Aligned movement- Power of third world countries- Able to have a voice - Importance of developing countries in the future of world