Bandung’s anticolonial front was already split along Cold War lines

Evidence

Despite the prevalence of the language of anticolonial solidarity, Cold War splits were already evident, and delegates from South Vietnam, Pakistan and Ceylon argued that Soviet colonialism was a greater threat than the European variant. The Iraqi delegate also warned of the danger of jumping ‘from the pan into the fire’, declaring the new imperialism of the Soviet Union to be ‘much deadlier than the old one’. The Pakistani delegate argued against being ‘misled into opening our doors to a new and more insidious form of imperialism that masquerades in the guise of liberation’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 276

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cold War superpower rivalry froze UN membership and pushed new states to Bandung. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1293; Bandung united half the world’s population against colonialism — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 275

Broader Connections

• Cold War superpower rivalry froze UN membership and pushed new states to Bandung. #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1293
• Bandung united half the world’s population against colonialism #contradicts (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 275