Nice sugar coating to put China into one of the 12 countries, I guess it's just like saying US doesn't play a major role during the Korean war as they were among one of the countries that send troops to Korea.
Open your sorry eyes, looked at that political, military support to your party, loss of life, and huge numbers of supply provided by us even at the time when we were still dirt poor for a whole fking 20+ years!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_Vietnam_War
During the First Indochina War[edit]
In the early 1950s, the Vietnamese Communists confronted formidable enemies and Ho Chi Minh avidly sought advice and weapons from China. The PRC began to send their advisors and later form the Chinese Military Advisory Group (CMAG) to assist the Viet Minh forces led by Wei Guoqing and Chen Geng. CMAG and Viet Minh began training for their first campaign. In September 1950, the Border Campaigns were launched.
[2]:42 And between April and September 1950, China sent to the Viet Minh 14,000 rifles and pistols, 1,700 machine guns and recoilless rifles, 150 mortars, 60 artillery pieces and 300 bazookas, as well as ammunition, medicine, communications materials, clothes and 2,800 tons of food.
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In addition, a “political advisory group” was also sent from China to northern Vietnam in 1950, led by
Luo Guibo.
[1]:15 Luo went to Tonkin to “pass on China’s experience in financial and economic work, rectification of cadres’ ideology and working style, government work and mobilization of the masses.”
[5] Between 1951 to 1954, the Chinese helped the Vietnamese in training their military commanders; reorganizing their defense and financial systems. They also helped the Vietnamese to mobilize the peasants to support war through land reform campaigns. Overall, there was a massive transfer of the Chinese experience of making a revolution to the Vietnamese.
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After the Geneva Conference[edit]
In the years following the conclusion of the
1954 Geneva Conference, China desired a peaceful international environment in order to focus on domestic reconstruction
[1]:65 while
Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) faced two fundamental tasks: to reconstruct the north and to unify the south.
To rebuild the north, the CPV immediately got assistance from China after the Geneva Conference. To help the DRV “relieve famine, rebuild the transportation systems, revive agriculture, reconstruct the urban economy, and improve the armed forces,”
[1]:69 Beijing agreed to provide rice, sent a team of economic advisers and experts to North Vietnam.
[1]:70 In December 1954, China sent more than 2000 railroad workers to the DRV to repair railway lines, roads, and bridges.
[1]:70 During Ho Chi Minh’s official visit to China in 1955, Beijing agreed to provide a grant of $200 million to be used to build various projects. After that, they also established a manpower exchange program.
[1]:71 Between 1955 and 1957, in addition to assistance from China, the Soviet Union also played an important role in helping DRV reconstruct and develop its economy.
When the 15th Plenum of the VWP Central Committee in 1959 authorized the use of armed struggle in the south,
[1]:82 Hanoi kept asking Beijing for military aid. Under these circumstances and in response to Hanoi's requests, China offered substantial military aid to Vietnam before 1963. According Chinese sources,
[6] “during the 1956–63 period, China military aid to Vietnam totaled 320 million yuan. China's arms shipments to Vietnam included 270,000 guns, over 10,000 pieces of artillery, 200 million bullets of different types, 2.02 million artillery shells, 15,00 wire transmitters, 5,000 radio transmitters, over 1,000 trucks, 15 planes 28 naval vessels and 1.18 million sets of military uniforms."
[3]:359 It was China’s aid to North Vietnam from 1955 to 1963 that effectively giving the North the resources needed to begin the insurgency in the South.
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Confronting U.S. escalation[edit]
The catalyst for the
Vietnam War would be the controversial
Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964. “To confront the increasing U.S. pressure in Indochina, Beijing stepped up its coordination with the Vietnamese and Laotian parties.”
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To counter these U.S. overwhelming air strikes, Ho requested Chinese Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) units in a meeting with Mao in May 1965. In response,
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces began flowing into North Vietnam in July 1965 to help defend Hanoi and its major transportation systems.
[7]:217 The total number of Chinese troops in North Vietnam between June 1965 and March 1968 amounted to over
320,000.
[1]:135 “The peak year was 1967 when 170,000 Chinese soldiers were present.”
[1]:135 In the same year the PLA and
People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) made an agreement under which the PLA provided the PAVN with 5,670 sets of uniforms, 5,670 pairs of shoes, 567 tons of rice, 20.7 tons of salt, 55.2 tons of meat, 20.7 tons of fish, 20.7 tons of sesame and peanuts, 20.7 tons of beans, 20.7 tons of lard, 6.9 tons of soy sauce, 20,7 tons of white sugar, 8,000 toothbrushes, 11,100 tubes of toothpaste, 35,300 bars of soap, and 109,000 cases of cigarettes.
[1]:135In total, the agreement included 687 different items, covering such goods as table tennis balls, volleyballs, harmonicas, playing cards, pins, fountain pen ink, sewing needle, and vegetable seeds.
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Such allowed Hanoi to use its own manpower for participating in battles in the South and maintaining the transport and communication lines between the North and the South and played a role in deterring further American expansion of the war into the North.
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China's supply of weapons and other military equipment to Vietnam sharply increased in 1965 compared with 1964. The amount of China's military supply fluctuated between 1965 and 1968, although the total value of material supplies remained at roughly the same level. But then in 1969–70, a sharp drop occurred, at the same time that all China's troops were pulled back. Not until 1972 would there be another significant increase in China's military delivery to Vietnam.
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Another figure shows that “When the last Chinese troops withdrew from Vietnam in August 1973, 1,100 soldiers had lost their lives and 4,200 had been wounded.”[1]:135
In 1968, China’s strategic environment changed as
Sino-Soviet relations took a decisive turn for the worse. When China was seeking rapprochement with America, “North Vietnam was still locked in a desperate struggle with the Americans,” which created serious implications for Sino-DRV relations.
[1]:195 Plus the beginning of the cultural revolution in China, all things together triggered tension and conflict between Beijing and Hanoi leading to the end of China’s assistance.
