[CarrotAndStick]

Will this finding be enough for China to declare Vietnam a renegade province? The last time the Chinese tried(1979), they lost to the Vietnamese.

[SunkenCiv]

Vietnam emerged as an independent state (or rather, reemerged) in the Middle Ages, it was a Chinese conquest. :’)

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-52725/Vietnam

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9054731/Nam-Viet