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SINO-VIETNAMESE RELATIONS, 1950-1978:
FROM COOPERATION TO CONFLICT
by
Kosal Path
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Kosal Path
Object Description
| Title | Sino-Vietnamese relations, 1950-1978: from cooperation to conflict |
| Author | Path, Kosal |
| Author email | phat@usc.edu; kosalpath@sbcglobal.net |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | International Relations |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-06-18 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Date approved | 2008-11-17 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-11-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lynch, Daniel C. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wills, John E. English, Robert D. |
| Abstract | Most existing studies have disagreed on the key causes of the breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese alliance in the late 1970s. They emphasized either the effect of the Sino-Soviet rivalry or Sino-American rapprochement; in other words, to explain the breakdown of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance, one only needs to analyze the great power rivalry. On the basis of newly available Vietnamese archival documents, this study suggests otherwise that it was the diplomatic and economic impact of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on Sino-Vietnamese relations during the decade 1966-76 that destroyed the Sino-Vietnamese alliance while the Sino-Soviet rivalry facilitated it. ❧ The unequal nature of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance and the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel in the 1950s caused Vietnamese leaders to resent their Chinese comrades, but they did not rise to become the major causes of the breakdown of the alliance. However, the spillover effects of Mao Zedong's treasured Cultural Revolution during the years 1966-68 triggered Vietnam's traditional fear of "the threat from the North" and severed the "we-feeling" tie between the two communist parties. In addition to the diplomatic disaster, the Cultural Revolution inflicted enormous toll on China's economy and consequently undermined Beijing's ability to fulfill its past aid pledges and satisfy Vietnam's new demand for greater aid throughout the 1970s. Over the course of the deterioration of Sino-Vietnamese relations, Vietnam was tilting toward the Soviets and the Soviet aid to fill in the void left by China. ❧ It is the diplomatic and economic impact of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on China's relations with Vietnam and Vietnam's policy responses that this dissertation seeks to focus on and illuminate by relying on the newly available Vietnamese archival documents. In addition, this study sheds new light on other issues that contributed to the breakdown of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance, namely the origins of Sino-Vietnamese territorial dispute, Sino-Vietnamese dispute over the Vietnamese treatment of Chinese experts and residents, and Beijing's economic sanctions against a unified Vietnam and support for the Khmer Rouge. |
| Keyword | breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese alliance; China's cultural revolution; Soviet Union's economic and military assistance to North Vietnam; China's economic and military assistance to North Vietnam; China's economic sanctions against Vietnam |
| Geographic subject (country) | China; Vietnam |
| Coverage date | 1950/1978 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1772 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Path, Kosal |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-PATH-2438.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesunpub2_Volume9/etd-PATH-2438.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | SINO-VIETNAMESE RELATIONS, 1950-1978: FROM COOPERATION TO CONFLICT by Kosal Path A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Kosal Path |
