From a Chinese perspective all went well until the abortive coup of 1965. The Indonesian army claimed that the PRC was implicated. Members of the Indonesian Communist Party and ethnic Chinese were then slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands, as the PRC was powerless to help them. The new order of General Suharto had no place for relations with China and, amid the early chaos of the Cultural Revolution, all relations were severed in 1967. As suddenly as warm relation had begun, so they were ended. The volatility of apparent ideological partnerships in the Third World stemmed from the highly personalistic character of many of their governments, as the Chinese discovered from their dealings in Africa in attempts to replace the Soviet Union as the true supporter of anti-imperialism and national liberation.