PLA taught a good lesson to Vietnam in 1979 too. We killed 130,000 people in just 28 days. But Chinese cruelty was not special. Everybody was cruel to the Vietnamese: the French, the Japanese, the Americans.
This is why both Vietnamese and South Koreans delude themselves that they are a super military power when in fact they are always massacred by more powerful countries.
In 1979, the PLA was suddenly attack on the villages and cities along the Vietnam border, killing innocent civilians. China took advantage when Vietnam's regular army during the facing the Khmer Rouge regime, PLA attacked against civilians in Vietnam.
But PLA was quickly stopped by female militia forces and the local army in Vietnam.
And PLA was quick to flee before they face Vietnam's regular military forces returning from Cambodia.
PLA is only very well at killing innocent civilians, borders Vietnam in 1979 and Tiananmen 1989 are examples. But PLA was defeated quickly, surrender and retreat in the face of female militia forces in Vietnam.
This is a photograph on
the Time:
Caught Red-handed
Vietnamese troops watch over detained Chinese soldiers on Feb. 26, 1979.
Seasoned by decades of guerrilla war and equipped with the latest Soviet technology, the Vietnamese proved too strong for China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), whose strategy still revolved around deploying "human waves" of ragtag soldiers, a tactic used nearly three decades before during the Korean War.
Read more:
China-Vietnam Border War, 30 Years Later - Photo Essays - TIME
and mighty PLA this:
I have read some information about a book of a Korean veteran but I don't remember. It talk about Tiger Division... They are one of strongest force in Vietnam War, did not be defeated before faced with 2nd and 3rd Yellow Stars Divisions of North Vietnam Army. Just an opinion.
Yes, of course we beat it, because the end result of the war like everyone knew.
Vietnam and Korea were both China's vassal states for centuries. They were both massacred by more powerful countries including China, Japan and Western nations. Now they are both super-duper military powers!
We did not massacre the Chinese people, but Japan did.
China's casualties and losses in Second Sino-Japanese War:
Nationalist: 1,320,000 KIA, 1,797,000 WIA, 120,000 MIA, and
17,000,000–22,000,000 civilians dead [4]
Communist: 500,000 KIA and WIA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
I think india is the weakest,tens of thousands of brits ruled whole india.
You forgot that China was divided by 6 countries, like sharing a cake. And some parts of China territory remains colony of Britain and Portugal until 1997, Hong Kong and Macau...