Russia and China under mao didnt get along, how come?

Question

I thought Russia supported China with weapons, training, money, etc

Answer 1

Partly historical as outlined above; the Chinese and Russians had many skirmishes about borders and area; even fought a couple of wars in the 19th and early 20th Century. When the communist under Mao took over it was a clash of personality and power between Mao and Stalin. Both thought they should be the world leader for the communist countries and they followed slightly different lines when it came to communism and both were nationalistic as well as world communist. When Stalin died the Chinese were then the last of the "original" communist leaders in there minds so they (meaning Mao) was even more determined to be the world leader for the communists. Now that the personalities are gone they can get along better and work towards a common goal or more correctly against a common threat (the Western countries). Still not necessarily friends but more of the enemy of my enemy friends.

Answer 2

Because they were on different levels of Maslow's Pyramid. China, under Mao, was at the food, air and water level. His first task was to feed all of those people. Full bellies don't revolt. The Soviet Union was up at the self-actualization level.
"Ni Hao", the first greeting of the day in the Chinese language doesn't mean "hello" or "how are you". It means "have you eaten today?". Even today, the primary human right in China is the right to sustenance. Mao enshrined it into their system as the concept of "the iron rice bowl".

Answer 3

You can find plenty of online resources on the subject.

During Stalin, Russian and Chinese relations originated and looked as if the two states would walk hand in hand.

But, after Stalin died, Khrushchev went on to implement his “de-Stalinization”. The result was a huge falling out with the Soviet Union. Many aspiring socialists, communists, revolutionist, etc around the world (U.S. too) saw this as a sort of duplicity to the cause. And so, turned their backs to the USSR. China was one of them. They didn’t approve of the direction the USSR was now heading.

Answer 4

They were chummy at first - fellow Communists, after all.

But then again, they both followed different styles of Communism - the Soviet type favored the proletariat, while the Maoist type favored the peasantry. But mainly, both states saw themselves as the true leaders of Communism.

Answer 5

The enmity between Russia and China predates communism by many hundreds of years. Modern political systems typically cannot overcome centuries of hatred...