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Can we have a context?
1. 1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China
2. PLA officers with West-German Bundeswehr staff
3. Vietnamese POVs during the Vietnamese-Chinese border war
4. Khmer Rouge killing fields
5. Afghan counterrevolutionary firing a Chinese-made Type 69 RPG
6. UNITA proxy forces of the SADF
there are many other examples for which I have no good photos like the support for people like Pinochet, Siad Barre during the Ogaden war and the nicaraguan contras.
Thank you. Do I understand correctly that your point is that China supported anti-communist forces?
yes. also just generally doing everything in their power to aid us interests and work towards the collapse of the ussr, not to speak about just how morally repugnant those factions they aided were. the other side of the sino-soviet split, while of course not entirely free of mistakes, never did shit like this.
1 is maybe Nixon or Kissinger and Zhou or Mao 'opening up' China to the West?
2 is Chinese troops with West Germans.
3 I think Sino-Vietnam war - appears to be Chinese troops with Vietnamese PoWs.
4 is the Cambodian killing fields - Deng supported the Khmer Rouge.
5 looks like Afghanistan and 6 maybe some African civil war that China aligned wrongly on?
Overall just examples of bad Chinese foreign policy during the Cold War.