Abstract
In: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2019. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, pp. 105–123.
This essay highlights the new strategic situation that emerged from the Sino-Soviet split for Communist parties across Asia and discusses the options facing the parties in North Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Japan in the 1960s. Mao Zedong’s offer of support looked especially attractive to the parties confronting Western military forces, as in Vietnam. However, the policy changes that followed the ascendance of Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow in 1964 spurred the Asian Communist parties to shift their allegiances to Moscow, and the Soviet Union turned out to be a much more effective economic partner. At the same time the article shows how party leaders in East Asia as well as Southeast Asia used the tensions between the Soviet and the Chinese leaders to their own advantage, gaining at least temporary benefit for their own countries.
Über die Autoren
Danhui Li, Prof. Dr. am Institut für die Erforschung von Chinas Nachbarländern und -regionen an der East China Normal University. Zahlreiche Publikationen zur Außenpolitik der Chinesischen Kommunistischen Partei zu den sowjetisch-chinesischen und den chinesisch-vietnamesischen Beziehungen während des Indochina-Krieges; Herausgeberin von zwei akademischen Zeitschriften: Lengzhan guojishi yanjiu (Cold War International History Studies) und Bianjiang yu zhoubian wenti yanjiu (Studies of Borderlands and Neighboring Regions). Veröffentlichungen zuletzt: Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959–1973: A New History, Lanham 2018 (mit Yafeng Xia); After Leaning to One Side: China and Its Allies in the Cold War, Washington D. C. 2011 (mit Zhihua Shen).
Yafeng Xia, Professor der Geschichte an der Long Island University in New York und Senior Research Fellow am Institute for Studies of China’s Neighboring Countries and Regions an der East China Normal University in Shanghai. Zugleich Fellow am Woodrow Wilson Center. Veröffentlichungen u. a.: A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949–1976, New York 2018 (mit Zhihua Shen); Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959: A New History, Lanham 2015 (mit Zhihua Shen); Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949–72, Bloomington 2006.