La lente réinsertion de la Chine dans le monde communiste

Abstract

China's slow reentry into the communist world, by Alain Jacob Since the Sino-Soviet rupture in the early sixties, contacts have been gradually renewed with the rest of the communist world. On the one hand, there have been conversations at state level with a view to defining a possible basis for « normal » if not friendly relations between China and the USSR. These have opened the way to renewed exchanges with other socialist countries allied to the Soviet Union. On the other hand, the changes in ideology which have occurred since the death of Mao Zedong, have made it possible for China's communist party to renew ties with parties in other countries, which they had previously denounced as « revisionist ». This dialogue is taking place according to new rules, which are rather différent from those in use within the international communist movement when it was controlled mainly by Moscow.