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Originally Posted by Shadowalker I dont know exactly but it was around the time of the fall of the USSR and tianamen square that relations seemed to sour. China no longer felt threatened by the USSR and tianamen square won china no friends, and all military equipment orders to china were cancelled, due to that incident. |
I agree with this, once the cold war died the need for US/China alliance died as well on top of this China was already on its own path to superpower-dom which meant it was always going to compete with the US.
I dont think that Tianamen square was a anything more than an excuse to part ways as other nations have done much worse and still remained allies (Chile, Iraq to name a few).