Can you provide any good sources for these claims? > China wouldn't have grown rich had it not been a pawn against USSR. China's split from the USSR began in

Can you provide any good sources for these claims? > China wouldn't have grown rich had it not been a pawn against USSR. China's split from the USSR began in the early 1970s under Mao. The first seeds of economic growth didn't sprout until the late 1970s under Deng Xiaopeng. Most of China's economic growth didn't happen until after the USSR was gone.