The Real Story: Understanding China's Foreign Policy -- 1959-1965
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is the second in a multi-part series that takes an in-depth look at the history of China's foreign policy. We discuss how U.S. imperialist pressure on China and the Soviet Union lead to a breakdown in relations between the two socialist giants, Soviet efforts at peaceful coexistence with the United States, the China-India war of 1962, the Soviet-U.S. 1963 nuclear test ban treaty, the U.S. invasion of Vietnam in 1964, and the CIA-organized anti-communist genocide in Indonesia.
Brian is joined by Kenneth Hammond, a Professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University and an activist with the organization Pivot to Peace.
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| 0:00.0 | We continue our series on China's foreign policy starting in 1949. |
| 0:06.9 | In this episode, we focus on the years 1959 to 1965. |
| 0:14.4 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:20.6 | impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:22.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. If you enjoy this program, if you've come to rely on our independent socialist programming, please show your support by going to patreon.com forward slash the Socialist Program and becoming a monthly subscriber. |
| 1:07.7 | We will be joined again this week by Dr. Ken Hammond. |
| 1:11.7 | He is a professor of East Asian and global history at New Mexico State University. |
| 1:17.3 | He is the founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University. |
| 1:23.0 | And he is an activist with Pivot to Peace. |
| 1:26.7 | Before we get started in our conversation with Dr. Hammond, |
| 1:30.0 | I want to give a brief review and a very brief historical timeline |
| 1:34.7 | to provide context for this period, 1959 to 1965. |
| 1:41.2 | Chairman Mao Zetong had visited Moscow right after the Chinese Revolution came to power. |
| 1:46.2 | That was in 1949. |
| 1:48.1 | He met with Stalin over several months of discussions between the Soviet Union and China. |
| 1:53.6 | The two countries forged a friendship treaty. |
| 1:56.7 | The Soviet Union agreed to send thousands of economic advisors to China. |
| 2:01.2 | It also sent military advisors. |
| 2:03.6 | It provided economic and military aid to China. |
| 2:07.0 | This alliance, along with the alliance of socialist governments in Eastern Europe and in |
| 2:12.4 | North Vietnam and North Korea, constituted what was then called the socialist camp. |
| 2:19.3 | This is a time when socialists came to power, had state power, and held state power |
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