Before the Yugoslav party’s (LCY) expulsion from the Cominform, its originality attracted the interest of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Burma, and India. Belgrade sent delegations to meetings of a Youth Assembly and the Communist Party of India (CPI). However, controversy followed owing to an upsurge of communist militancy in Southeast Asia, a development not directed by Moscow, and divisions within the CPI and the Burmese communists. However, Yugoslavia’s expulsion diminished the distrust of the regime. In 1948, Belgrade established diplomatic relations with both Pakistan and India, initially to expand commercial relations. Belgrade sought to avoid diplomatic isolation, although its preference for communist parties in these countries remained. Despite Yugoslav initiatives, China and Vietnam did not respond until 1955. Nevertheless, the split between Belgrade and Moscow stimulated the “international emancipation” of Yugoslav communism. By the early 1950s Yugoslavia was poised between the alternative of seeking security through a European orientation expressed by the Balkan Pact or through the goals of the United Nations, where the ideal of “resisting great-power domination” appealed to anti-colonial attitudes. Although Belgrade condemned Chinese “aggression” in the Korean War, it definitively joined the “Afro-Asian” neutrals by 1952. Relations with India and Burma were cultivated by the Yugoslav diplomat Josip Djerdja. Such activity laid the basis for Yugoslav non-alignment.