The PRC's internal reforms, opening to the outside world, and estrangement from the USSR foretold the gradual dissolution of the Cold War division of the world along ideological fault lines.
中共主動實施對內改革，對外開放，並與蘇聯漸行漸遠，事實上已預告以意識形態做為集團界限的冷戰格局將面臨瓦解。