Editing Sino-Soviet split (section)

=== Rivalry in the Third World ===
In the 1970s, the ideological rivalry between the PRC and the USSR extended into the countries of Africa, Asia and of the Middle East, where each socialist country funded the vanguardism of the local [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] parties and militias. Their political advice, financial aid, and military assistance facilitated the realization of [[wars of national liberation]], such as the [[Ogaden War]] between Ethiopia and Somalia (also linked to the [[Ethiopian Civil War]], [[Somali Rebellion]] and [[Eritrean War of Independence]]); the [[Rhodesian Bush War]] between white European colonists and anti-colonial black natives; the aftermath of the Bush War, the Zimbabwean [[Gukurahundi]] massacres; the [[Angolan Civil War]] between competing national-liberation groups of guerrillas, which proved to be a US–Soviet [[proxy war]]; the [[Mozambican Civil War]]; and the [[Palestinian political violence|guerrilla factions fighting for the liberation of Palestine]]. In [[Thailand]], the pro-Chinese front organizations were based upon the local [[Thai Chinese|Chinese minority population]], and thus proved politically ineffective as a Maoist revolutionary vanguard.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gregg A. Brazinsky|title=Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t_IxDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA252|year=2017|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|page=252|isbn=9781469631714|access-date=15 October 2017|archive-date=19 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819230458/https://books.google.com/books?id=t_IxDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA252|url-status=live}}</ref>

During the Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam initially sought to balance relations with China on one hand and the USSR on the other.<ref name=":Wang">{{Cite book |last=Wang |first=Frances Yaping |title=The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2024 |isbn=9780197757512}}</ref>{{Rp|page=93}} Vietnamese leadership was to divided over which of the countries to support.<ref name=":Wang" />{{Rp|page=93}} The pro-Soviet group led by [[Lê Duẩn]] eventually developed momentum, especially as China sought to improve [[China–United States relations|its relations with the United States]], which Vietnamese leadership viewed as a betrayal of the [[China–Vietnam relations|China-Vietnam relationship]].<ref name=":Wang" />{{Rp|page=93}} Vietnam's increasing closeness with the USSR in turn alarmed Chinese leadership, which feared encirclement by the USSR.<ref name=":Wang" />{{Rp|pages=93–94}} This contributed to China's decision to invade Vietnam, beginning the [[Sino-Vietnamese War|1979 Sino-Vietnamese War]].<ref name=":Wang" />{{Rp|pages=93–94}}