In the 1970s , Sino-Soviet rivalry had extended to Africa and the Middle East , where each socialist country funded Marxist – Leninist political parties and militias , such as the Ogaden War ( 1977 – 1978 ) between Ethiopia and Somalia , the Rhodesian Bush War ( 1964 – 1979 ) between white colonists and anti-colonial natives , and the Bush War 's aftermath , the Zimbabwean Gukurahundi massacres ( 1983 – 1987 ) , the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ) between competing national-liberation groups was a Soviet-American proxy war , the Mozambican Civil War ( 1975 – 1992 ) , and Palestinian guerrilla factions . In Thailand , the pro-Chinese front organisations were based upon the local Chinese minority population , and thus were politically ineffective
Gukurahundi
Gukurahundi
Sino-Soviet split