News Analysis
Russia and China have a long land border, both countries have an ostensibly strong military and nuclear weapons, and both have large populations that it seems their regimes don’t mind sacrificing for their own survival. Both were ruled by communist regimes; one still is.
During the Cold War, President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger intended to split the communist regimes in China and Russia, thus weakening Russia, then the senior “partner.” They initiated diplomatic and commercial relations with China, and de-recognized Taiwan. All this against the backdrop of the “Cultural Revolution,” a decade in which the regime worked hard to erase all of China’s 5,000 years of culture, heritage, and morality—with parents and children ratting each other out for having incorrect thoughts….