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Your time line is off. USSR assistance to China on nuclear weapons happened before the split. The rest happened after USSR fell and Russia sold the weapons beca
by fspeech 9y ago
Your time line is off. USSR assistance to China on nuclear weapons happened before the split. The rest happened after USSR fell and Russia sold the weapons because they were economically needy.
- baybal2 9y agoNo, please check the precise timing. Even with first relations over the nuke were happening before the split, last pieces were delivered to China well after that. Jet engine tech was given to China at the very peak of the "split" and ground to air missile tech just a year after Nixon's visit, which means they got it almost as soon as Soviet did themselves. Why would Soviets ship a supersecret, vital, wunderwaffe defence tech to an enemy? And as for living witnesses of trains full of coal going into China. There are thousands of people in cities of Manzhouli and Zabaikalsk saw that with their own eyes, and being very puzzled by that. China never had any issue with coal supply whatsoever, it has world's biggest coal reserves. The presumption is that those wagons with coal were just a cover for Soviets to deliver China the defence tech covertly.
- fspeech 9y agoUSSR exported their SAMs to China starting in 1950s. They had a mutual defense treaty before the split. The treaty did not end the moment fissures started to appear. I can't find any report on the defense tech exports to China well after the split. If you have references please share. Keep in mind that even now Russia sells rocket engines to the US.