Forgotten War: How China Was Crushed By Vietnam in a 1979 Conflict

[fadine]

2. China invaded Vietnam, taking a strategic mountain just 80 km from Vietnamese capital.

Where? Name?

3. Vietnam announces to withdraw from Cambodia.
4. China withdrew from Vietnam.

Timeline?

1. Vietnam invaded and overthrew the Chinese allied Cambodian Government.

Is the Khmer Rouge an ally of China?

China has infecting Pakistan with stupid illness.

 

[Feng Leng]

South Vietnam was destroyed

Fixed that for you.

Where? Name?

Battle of Laoshan

Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Figaro]

Vietnam was destroyed

People always forget that even though the US did lose 58,000 servicemen in Vietnam ... North Vietnam lost almost a million. I'm not going to say that the war was not a defeat or anything for the US since US troops did withdraw but if we are talking about pure military tactics and operation, the US was hardly defeated at all. At the end of the day, if it wasn't for the politicians and the Cold War-esque nature of the conflict, the US could have steamed through North Vietnam. Do people really think some country like North Vietnam's could not be conquered by a country that was literally planning to invade Japan just two decades prior?

Is the Khmer Rouge an ally of China?

China has infecting Pakistan with stupid illness.

One of the main reasons for the 1979 war was the Vietnamese invasion and overthrow of the Khmer Rouge (aka Pol Pots government). The Chinese Khmer Rouge partnership/alliance is all extremely well established by historians.

 

[LeGenD]

1. Vietnam invaded and overthrew the Chinese allied Cambodian Government.
2. China invaded Vietnam, taking a strategic mountain just 80 km from Vietnamese capital.
3. Vietnam announces to withdraw from Cambodia.
4. China withdrew from Vietnam.

Where is the Vietnamese victory in all of this?

Err...

Vietnam - Cambodia war began in 1979 which led to Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia and this occupation lasted till 1989.

China invaded Vietnam in 1979 in support of Cambodia but resulting clashes proved very costly to both in a span of 4 weeks. China called off its troops then.

References

In 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia on strategic grounds & also stopped a genocide

The genocidal policies of the Khmer Rouge provided opportunity for a Vietnam-backed puppet government to legitimise its rule.

mothership.sg

Cambodia - Vietnamese Occupation - 1979-1989

www.globalsecurity.org

Cambodia Emerges - After the Vietnamese Occupation.; Phnom Penh, Eye on West, Tries To Shed Image as Hanoi Puppet (Published 1990)

www.nytimes.com

 

[nahtanbob]

People always forget that even though the US did lose 58,000 servicemen in Vietnam ... North Vietnam lost almost a million. I'm not going to say that the war was not a defeat or anything for the US since US troops did withdraw but if we are talking about pure military tactics and operation, the US was hardly defeated at all. At the end of the day, if it wasn't for the politicians and the Cold War-esque nature of the conflict, the US could have steamed through North Vietnam. Do people really think some country like North Vietnam's could not be conquered by a country that was literally planning to invade Japan just two decades prior?

When it come to military tactics North Vietnamese lost a lot of men. With number of troops in Vietnam I would have surprised the North Vietnamese by few frontal incursions. It would have forced the North Vietnamese to concentrate on defending the North instead of sending forces to the South.

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Where? Name?


Timeline?


Is the Khmer Rouge an ally of China?

China has infecting Pakistan with stupid illness.

That's what the original article suggests. Read it.

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

Err...

Vietnam - Cambodia war began in 1979 which led to Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia and this occupation lasted till 1989.

China invaded Vietnam in 1979 in support of Cambodia but resulting clashes proved very costly to both in a span of 4 weeks. China called off its troops then.

References

In 1978, Vietnam invaded Cambodia on strategic grounds & also stopped a genocide

The genocidal policies of the Khmer Rouge provided opportunity for a Vietnam-backed puppet government to legitimise its rule.

mothership.sg

Cambodia - Vietnamese Occupation - 1979-1989

www.globalsecurity.org

Cambodia Emerges - After the Vietnamese Occupation.; Phnom Penh, Eye on West, Tries To Shed Image as Hanoi Puppet (Published 1990)

www.nytimes.com

That's not what the original article is trying to portray.

 

[LeGenD]

That's not what the original article is trying to portray.

This is one of the lesser publicized and studied conflicts in history. Therefore, interpretations might vary.

You may consult wider number of sources to understand what happened.

Further readings:

Deng Xiaoping's Long War | Xiaoming Zhang | University of North Carolina Press

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies...

uncpress.org

7 Facts You Didn't Know About The Cambodian-Vietnamese War

The Cambodian-Vietnamese War took place in the 1970s. However, the events are largely forgotten in comparison with the more widely known Vietnam War.

www.warhistoryonline.com

Cambodian-Vietnamese Conflict, 1977-1991 - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress

id.loc.gov

 

[Beast]

Chinese mission was to liberate Cambodia from Vietnam by virtue of invading the latter but this strategy did not work and Cambodia could not be liberated by force.

Chinese - Vietnamese clashes were brutal to the extent that the invasion was called off in weeks.

But another objective of reaching lang son and cang bao in vietnam was achieved so as to secure Chinese border. There are plenty of photo showing Chinese occupy these areas.