If the USSR is too strong, side with the US to weaken the USSR.

this policy is probably the thing most singularly responsible for the coming collapse of global civilisation btw

TLDR: China is more naive when it comes to the US empire and its desires than the USSR

Very interesting and concise , thank you

Mao developed the Three Worlds Theory to distance China from the first (US and the USSR) and the second (developed countries of the Global North) worlds

Don’t you mean ‘the first (US and the developed countries of the Global North) and the second (the USSR and the rest of the Warsaw Pact) worlds’?