How did Sino-Soviet relations develop between 1949-1969?

USSR + China 1949-53 'reasonably good'

USSR + China 1953-69 (S-S S)

China + US 1945-53 'tense and confrontational

Bitterness towards S in CCW support for M

MDT= M junior partner to S

Mao didn't want to be a satellite state

Quemoy '54 attacked leading to MDT with US + T

M wanted retaliatory response from K

Khr. seen as soft on capitalism

'59 CDM Khr. soft on capitalism

Malinovsky Incident '64=S advisors left Ch.

NTBT '63 C critical of USSR

'64 C becomes nuclear power

'66 GCR

'69 Border clashes

'69 Kosygin went to stabilise relations

45-49 = US help T + J

49 onwards = GATT (Jap), Ch refused UN

'53 KW = direct confrontation