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Red China's ideological dispute with Russia has caused inevitable strains within Communist parties of many a land. From India, where Mao's border forays have produced a chill in Sino-Indian relations, rumors filter out that the local Red leaders are split wide open, most of them reportedly favoring Moscow. Though North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh owes the Chinese a debt for their help in the war that won him his country, he threw his support to Khrushchev and "peaceful coexistence" at the recent Bucharest conference.
Anti-Chinese feeling in Indonesia has frustrated the Chinese, aided the Russians. Under Peking's frightening shadow, Thailand's sturdily pro-Western Marshal Sarit has banned all trade with Red China, but last week accepted an offer of technical aid from Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Nikolaev. But in Burma and Cambodia, both neutralist and nervous, proximity favors Mao's Chinese. Both have taken aid from Peking, are heavily infiltrated with Peking's busy agents. North Korea has used the rivalry to pit one Communist giant against the other, eliciting bids from both.
Just now, the Russians can always outbid the Chinese. They have the power and the wealth. But the Chinese like to talk in centuries where others think in decades.