Sarah Paine

Okay.

And the whole thing becomes public in 1960 with anger all around.

And the two, Russia and China, squabbled incessantly over the Vietnam War.

And the North Vietnamese were interested in getting maximum aid for both, from both, which it did.

And they begged the Chinese to allow the Russians to ship things over land through China and

So the Chinese felt obliged to do it.

But the terms of that overland trade were just a food for all kinds of squabbling.

It just didn't end.

So the story of the reversal and the balance of power between Russia and China arose from multiple factors.

Doesn't happen all at once.

It is both a story of China's rise and of Russia's decline.

And step one for China is getting its own atomic weapon.

which it does in 1964 so that it can get itself free of Soviet bondage.

And so this is in 1964 after they've detonated that bomb where Mao goes, okay, there are too many places occupied by the Soviet Union.

The Russians took everything they could.

We have not yet presented an account for this list of stolen territory, all the territory I've shown you.

We want it back.

Russians, jaw drops, panic.

And the Chinese then are much more aggressive.

about what they consider to be their territorial rights.