Özet:

The Sino-Soviet dispute was officially cemented in the early 1960s. Certainly, this situation harmed the power, unity and prestige of the socialist bloc. In this process, the United States (USA) established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC/China). China also responded positively to this rapprochement to balance the “Soviet threat.” In this study; it was aimed to reveal that the US tried to gain advantage over the USSR in the Cold War by taking advantage of the disruption of the Soviet Union (USSR)-China relations and that China normalized its relations with the US as a result of the threat perception by the USSR. The subject is examined by using official, primary and secondary sources in Russian and English. In the second half of the 1980s the tension of the Cold War relaxed. The US benefited from this process and rivaled the ideological opponent the USSR. Soviet-Chinese relations improved but the Cold War was over and the USSR was in the dissolution process. Now the US was the only leader of the new international system.

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