Could someone please explain to me what a de facto alliance is. It is related to Korean War when at the end, China became a de facto ally of the Soviet Union. Please help??

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kohai · Answer

A de facto government is a government wherein all the attributes of sovereignty have, by usurpation, been transferred from those who had been legally invested with them to others, who, sustained by a power above the forms of law, claim to act and do really act in their stead.