Well, this is really good news to me.
I have been waiting for this for some time. Frankly I assumed the Communist ideology, which was never really a Vietnamese goal to begin with, would have failed a bit earlier after the fall of the USSR.
But the Chinese probably would not let it, and now, after these incursions, the Chinese are not feared as they were.
They had a small war during my first tour in Korea back around 1979, IIRC.
As was predicted in the great “All the Trouble in the World, P. J. O’Rourke “
We really did win the war and proof shows every year!
:-)