5. Sino-Soviet conferences: Centering on the “theory of conspiracy to provoke the Korean War
Our concern here is Mao Tse-tung’s visit to the Soviet Union and the subsequent Sino-Soviet summit talks with Stalin.
Arriving at Moscow on December 16, 1949, Mao clarified at a press conference that his conferences with Stalin would deal with the question of Sino-Soviet friendship, a treaty of alliance, Soviet assistance to Communist China, and a Sino-Soviet trade treaty, and “other.”84 Many authoritative specialists asserted that the Korean War occupied high priority among the “other questions.”85 Dallin among them drew the following conclusion by utilizing American intelligence sources.