I'm the general secretary of the Chinese communist party in 1961 and my Soviet neighbour is becoming increasingly revisionist in its Marxist doctrine. Should I cut ties?
Yes, definitely cut ties. Then help the largest imperialist powers in military conflicts against such socialist state because that's what Marx probably said you should do.
I haven't fully finished it yet but I'm also losing it over this. I knew the Sino-Soviet split was a disaster but I didn't know how deeply China worked with the US as a result. I guess I understand now why they were able to convince the US to tie their economies so deeply together