Posted on 02/27/2017 10:53:59 PM PST by Leaning Right
Several of Vietnam’s state-controlled news outlets have in recent days recalled the country’s 1979 border war with China, until now a strictly taboo topic. Such a recollection may signal that the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam has finally eased censorship of the short-lived but bloody military conflict.
The war between the two communist neighbors broke out in the early hours of February 17, 1979, when China launched a full-scale military invasion into Vietnam’s northernmost provinces. Though the skirmish lasted only 27 days, the devastation it caused was colossal.
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If China goes anywhere, it will be to deal with fatboy over in N. Korea first.
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China’s point of view: Kill them to “three generations”. Go and find what this means. The Chinese don’t play around once you make them mad.
That didn’t happen in ‘79, did it?
I remember Jane Fonda’s protests of China’s actions. < /fakememories >
I suspect Viet Nam is suggesting to China that under certain circumstances China could feed a lot of men and equipment into another useless action. Viet Nam cannot “win” a serious war against China but the antipathy to the Chinese runs deep in the population and in their history. Viet Nam maintains a much larger military than would seem to be justified by its size and wealth. China is the reason. The US is happy for Viet Nam to have a big military for the same reason.
I still think Fat Boy is behaving pretty much as China desires. It keeps the Yanks focused on Korea.
Yes, I’m surprised they didn’t use Obama’s time in office to flex their muscles more.
If there’s one topic that’s still “strictly taboo”, that is Chinese intervention in Vietnam in the early 1950s.
What the hell...everyone else was doing it. Why not China. At least they list in the neighborhood.
I was certain that when obammy was Pres. the Chi-coms would invade Taiwan, knowing our magic negro would sit back and do squat.
Thus sending a message to its other neighbors.
The French were furious when the Americans had the ceasefire in Korea in 1953; they were fighting the Indochina War at our request (they knew after WWII they didn’t have the military strength or political will to do so), so we armed them to the teeth (including loaning them as aircraft carrier) and pushed them in. When the war in Korea petered out, the French started seeing loads of captured American weapons from Korea in the hands of the Viet Minh, as well as Red Chinese advisors (especially for anti-aircraft units, which proved the undoing of the French).
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