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China got it’s butt kicked by the Vietnamese in 79’. 40 years ago. It’s imperative the 4-5 nations get together to stand up to the chicoms. Won’t happen. They’ll wait for the US to do the heavy lifting. Those little nations are disputing the issue amongst themselves. Perhaps Japan(and Taiwan) ought to go nuclear.


7 posted on 04/25/2019 6:31:02 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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[China got it’s butt kicked by the Vietnamese in 79’. 40 years ago.]


That’s not actually what happened. The Vietnamese tried the same Vietcong crap they pulled against our guys before the failure of the 1968 Tet Offensive wiped the VC out and made the Vietnam War an all-NVA affair. In 1979, the Chinese responded by wiping out the civilians providing aid and comfort to the guerrillas, destroying Vietnam’s Gold Division in the process. The Vietnamese claim that the Chinese killed 100,000 civilians during their 6-week campaign.
https://www.quora.com/If-guerrilla-warfare-is-so-hard-to-beat-why-didnt-more-countries-militaries-revert-to-guerilla-tactics-when-they-were-on-the-verge-of-defeat/answer/Yifeng-Huang-8
http://www.historynet.com/war-of-the-dragons-the-sino-vietnamese-war-1979.htm

[Guerilla warfare can be easily defeated if the attackers are resolute.

Genghis Khan, probably the greatest conquerer ever, never had a problem with guerilla warfare, even though the lands he conquered included Afghanistan. Why? Because his army simply slaughter all civilians, including their babies, who dare to fight against them.

In the Vietnam war, the Americans struggled against the Vietcongs. When China fought Vietnam, China simply romped through North Vietnam (north of Hanoi), transport removable factories/infrastructure back to China while destroying those that they cannot bring back. One crack Vietnamese division that was rushed back from Cambodia wisely decided to settle into prepared defensive positions near Hanoi instead of reinforcing the surrounded troops north of Hanoi. Why didn’t China has problem with Vietcong guerilla fighters?

When I first visited China in the 1990s, a retired veteran bitterly told me that his Major was killed by a ~6 year old Vietnamese kid holding a secret pistol when he was giving out food to the kid. Apparently, this is not an isolated incident. Very soon, they enacted Genghis Khan’s strategy. North Vietnamese villagers encountered were simply labeled as “civilian militia”, treated as combatants and showed no mercy. PLA never encounter anymore guerilla problems because there were no civilians left to provide the guerilla with information, shelter and food!

In the 1980s, there is no internet and no international reporter who has access to report on this. Chinese body counts, which included “civilian militia combatants”, concluded that enemy casualties were in excess of 10 times PLA losses.]


18 posted on 04/26/2019 7:24:04 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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