Timeline Tuesday 14 February 1950

Events on Tuesday 14 February 1950 1

• 1950 Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship signed Mao and Stalin formalize alliance between China and the USSR Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin signed the Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance in Moscow, binding China and the Soviet Union in a thirty-year military and economic alliance. The treaty shaped Cold War alignments in Asia for the following decade. It included Soviet loans and the return of Chinese railway and port assets held since the 1945 agreements.