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I don't want to threadjack too badly, but this isn't really true. The Chinese and Soviets had a relationship that started degrading the moment Stalin died. Mao saw himself as the new torchholder for the revolution, and he and Khrushchev tangled many times, including some pretty vicious swipes at one another. By the time Breshnev rolled into power, there was a low-grade border war being fought between the two nations. One of the great failings of American foreign policy during the Cold War was not exploiting the differences and divides in Sino/Soviet relations. Kissinger was really one of the first to recognize the breach and the first to actually exploit it, although the Chinese have never really been our ally.
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That's why I added the second part.
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I could point out the social and political divisions between the two which allowed our talks to carry weight, yet do not exist with Syria.
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My point was there is no division within Syria, nor do they have a powerful ally, which we could exploit with talks.