Korean War #5: Sino-Soviet Talks Part 1
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Episode 5: Sino-Soviet Talks Part 1 examines, as you may have guessed, the detailed and complex Sino-Soviet relationship, as we build towards the signing of the Sino-Soviet alliance in February 1950. Much like Stalin and Mao had much to do before that alliance was signed, so we have much to cover before we can get to that point in our narrative, and this episode here provides a good deal of background to the Sino-Soviet relationship in the late 1940s.
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Music used:
I used the song 'Maria' by Clarice Vance, which was released in 1905 originally but which enjoyed a great deal of popularity throughout the 1960s. You can find this gem here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Clarice_Vance/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_04212015/Maria_-_Clarice_Vance
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| 1:44.7 | Last time we looked through Mao Zedong's rise to power and we brought his political career up to date with that of his contemporaries. |
| 1:47.5 | Although he was a relative newcomer to the international system and to the polarising nature |
| 1:53.1 | of the two camps, which was to characterize the Cold War, Mao would certainly have his |
| 1:58.5 | uses for both sides. If the Americans could separate Mao from |
| 2:02.1 | Stalin and get there with incentives before the Soviets, then they would be able to drive a major |
| 2:07.7 | wedge between communism's two premier powers. This tactic would indeed be deemed Truman's |
| 2:14.0 | great wedge by historians. On the other hand, if Stalin could make nice with Mao and overcome the reservations he had |
| 2:21.9 | about the Chinese communist leadership, then the combined resources of the Chinese Soviet bloc could |
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