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Taiwan. Sino-Third World relations refers to the general relationship between the two Chinese states across the Taiwan Strait (the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China) and the rest of the Third World . Next in importance to its relations with the superpowers—the Soviet Union and United States—during the Cold War were China ...
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.The United States, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Western European countries and other allies represented the "First World", while the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and their allies represented the "Second World".
The Three Worlds Theory (simplified Chinese: 三个世界的理论; traditional Chinese: 三個世界的理論; pinyin: Sān gè Shìjiè de Lǐlùn), in the field of international relations, posits that the international system during the Cold War operated as three contradictory politico-economic worlds. It was first formulated by Mao Zedong ...
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries. [3] However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. There is also no clear agreement on which countries fit this category. [4][5] The terms low and middle-income country (LMIC) and newly ...
China is the third-largest country in the world by land area after Russia, and the third- or fourth-largest country in the world by total area. [s] China's total area is generally stated as being approximately 9,600,000 km 2 (3,700,000 sq mi). [174]
Three-world model. The terms First World, Second World, and Third World were originally used to divide the world's nations into three categories. The complete overthrow of the pre–World War II status quo left two superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union) vying for ultimate global supremacy, a struggle known as the Cold War. They ...
After the conclusion of the Korean War, China sought to balance its identification as a member of the Soviet bloc by establishing friendly relations with Pakistan and other Third World countries, particularly in Southeast Asia. [80] China's entry into the Korean War was the first of many "preemptive counterattacks".
Maoism–Third Worldism (MTW) is a broad tendency which is mainly concerned with the infusion and synthesis of Marxism —particularly of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist persuasion—with concepts of non-Marxist Third Worldism, namely dependency theory and world-systems theory. There is no general consensus on part of Maoist–Third Worldists ...