"China turned against the Soviet Union" . "Sino-Soviet" . "segregated" . "came to an abrupt end" . "Sino-Soviet relations worsened" . "hostile" . . "tensions with China" . "had strained relations" . "split between China and the USSR" . . "Sino-Soviet stand" . . "bitter enemy of USSR on a worldwide basis" . . "international split" . "broke with the Soviet model" . "its rival in the Communist bloc" . "later" . "increasingly tense relations" . . . "rift between the China and the Soviet Union" . "Sino-Soviet split" . "Sino-Soviet arguments" . . "Soviet rival" . "Sino\u2013Soviet political split" . "ideological and border dispute" . "deteriorated" . "after 1960" . "Sino-Soviet Split" . "Chinese-Soviet relations" . "split between the USSR and China" . "Sino-Soviet split" . "ongoing debate" . "poor relations with the Soviet Union" . "Sino-Soviet break" . "Soviet-Chinese relations" . "Chinese-Soviet border" . "between China and the Soviet Union" . "China" . "rift" . . "Chinese\u2013Soviet hot war" . . . "Sino-Soviet tensions" . . "China and the USSR had become bitter enemies" . "split within the Sino-Soviet bloc" . "Sino-Soviet border conflicts" . "Mao's denouncement of the Soviet Union" . "deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations" . "tense Soviet-Chinese relations" . "Sino-Soviet conflict" . "China's rivalry with the Soviet Union" . . "Chinese" . . . . . "competed for influence" . "relations between two countries had soured" . "Chinese-Soviet split" . "ideological separation" . . . "serious split" . "China broke away" . "Sino-Soviet divorce" . . "breaking of political relations between the PRC and the USSR" . "rift between the Soviet Union and China" . "the Sino-Soviet split" . "Sino-Soviet Summit" . "1961" . "Sino-Soviet ideological split" . "tensions between the Soviet Union and China" . "Independent" . "Sino\u2013Soviet split" . "Sino-Soviet dispute" . "increased tensions with Communist China" . "ideological split" . "had gone cold" . . "souring of Sino-Soviet relations" . "relations between the two countries deteriorated" . "Soviet/Chinese tensions" . . "some 30 years" . "growing split" . "increasingly strained terms with the Soviet Union" . "China and the USSR were at sword's point" . "prior to July 1960" . "Sino-Soviet ideological dispute" . "communist rival" . "fell out" . . "tensions between China and the Soviet Union" . "decline of Sino-Soviet relations" . . "soured" . "their dispute with China" . . . . "The split" . "Sino - Soviet dispute" . . "Sino\u2013Soviet dispute" . "split" . "broke off" . . "Sino-Soviet rivalry" . "split with the Soviet Union" . "poor relations" . "tensions with the Soviet Union" . "Beijing line" . "split between the Soviet Union and China" . "Soviet\u2013Chinese tensions" .