The bitterly fought Pluto wars of a few years back showed that even the experts disagree on what is and what isn’t a planet. One thing there’s no quarrel about, of course: a planet is, by definition, something that orbits a star.
AT its simplest, the Russian-Chinese quarrel is over what strategy to follow toward the ultimate victory of Communismand over who shall be in charge of operations. But beneath this there lies a far deeper split: the split between Communist theory and human reality