ry, 85-9) In March of thatyear the Chinese boycotted the Twenty-third Party Congress, the first time that they hadever done so. The Chinese put out this statement concerning the boycott. “Russia....usedto be the center of the international working-class movement. Now however, theleadership of China has become the centre of modern revisionism.” (Nogee, 278)Now the schism bewteen the Soviet Union and China was complete. Both nationssevered ties with one another and cooperation in the near furture was not a likelypossibility. However, this did not mean that the USSR and China did not havedisagreements. The two nations continued to have disagreements and even confrontationsuntil the end of the Cold War, but this animosity was merely an extension of the hositilitycaused by the Sino-Soviet rift. For example, in 1967 China jailed a Soviet officer whorefused to wear a badge bearing Mao’s portrait. The officer was put in an open truck andparaded around in Bejing until the Soviets wrote a formal letter asking the Chinese toreturn the officer to the USSR. Another tense confrontation came in 1969 when Chinesetroops attacked Soviet troops on the small island of Damansky. The Soviets relatiated byinvading a province of China, where they met heavy Chinese resistance. Both sidedincured heavy losses. These events may seem as if they were an escalation of theSino-Soviet schism, but in reality they were merely events that occured because of theschism between China and the USSR. By 1965 the schism between China and the USSRhad become complete. After 1965 both nations continued to shape their foreign policiesowards each other in an antagonistic manner. Disagreements and confrontations betweenthe two nations were merely events that were following the trend that was layed out in thelate 1950’s and early 1960’s. The Chinese and the USSR pursued antagonistic policiestowards one another, a trend that was already set by 1965....
