Socialist patriotism
The Communist Party of China and the government of China advocate socialist patriotism. The Communist Party of China describes the policy of socialist patriotism as the following: "Socialist patriotism has three levels. At the first level, individuals should subordinate their personal interests to the interests of the state. At the second level, individuals should subordinate their personal destiny to the destiny of our socialist system. At the third level, individuals should subordinate their personal future to the future of our communist cause." The PRC portrays the Communist government as the embodiment of the will of the Chinese people.
Sino-Soviet split
The Sino-Soviet split allowed only written communications between the quarreling socialist countries; thus, the PRC and the USSR supported their geopolitical actions with formal statements of ideology concerning the true road to world communism, that is the general line of the party. In June 1963, the PRC published "The Chinese Communist Party's Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement", to which the USSR replied with the "Open Letter of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union". In 1964, as a theoretician of Communism, Chairman Mao said that, in light of their differences of interpretation of Orthodox Marxism, a counter-revolution in the USSR had re-established capitalism; consequently, the USSR and then the Warsaw Pact countries broke relations with the People's Republic of China .