Been listening to the latest blowback, and was a bit astonished to hear that China was a significant player in hosting training camps for the earlier generations of jihadis, but they don’t go into a lot of detail on china’s motivations or anything. This would have been in the period after mao’s death, iirc they said 1979

what’s up with that? was the sino soviet split that severe that they sought to undermine and destroy the USSR?