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China made some mistakes in the context of the Sino-Soviet split, in particular their intervention on the wrong side of the Cambodia-Vietnam conflict, and a few other things, but the root causes of the split were the much worse mistakes made by the Soviet Union in their behavior toward China (stemming from the CPSU’s historical-nihilist revisionism). Since the dissolution of the USSR i think China has had a fairly pragmatic foreign policy and they did the best they could under the circumstances they have been facing.
China made some mistakes in the context of the Sino-Soviet split, in particular their intervention on the wrong side of the Cambodia-Vietnam conflict, and a few other things, but the root causes of the split were the much worse mistakes made by the Soviet Union in their behavior toward China (stemming from the CPSU’s historical-nihilist revisionism). Since the dissolution of the USSR i think China has had a fairly pragmatic foreign policy and they did the best they could under the circumstances they have been facing.