Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pham Van Dong, Army Chief of Staff General Van Tien Dung and other Cabinet members flew to Phnom-Penh to sign a friendship treaty with the new Heng Samrin regime. The absence of Viet Nam's top officialdom from Hanoi may have helped determine the timing of Peking's attack...
...Wall mentality": its obsessive fear of encroachments, real or imagined, against its borders. This siege mentality compelled China to enter the Korean War. It has contributed to periodic flare-ups between Chinese and Soviet troops along the Ussuri and Amur rivers. It may also have been behind China's attack against India in 1962. That assault, in which the Chinese penetrated up to 100 miles inside Indian territory on a broad front but withdrew benignly one month later, was regarded by some as a possible blueprint precedent for the current punitive action...
...ventilated Soviet "wrath and indignation" at the Chinese aggression. Without making a specific threat, Soviet Defense Minister Ustinov reaffirmed that the U.S.S.R. "will honor its obligations under the treaty of friendship and cooperation with Viet Nam." Official press and radio also charged the U.S. with connivance in the Chinese attack. Emphasizing that the Chinese invasion was launched "almost the next day" after Teng Hsiao-p'ing's return from Washington, Pravda protested that "no propaganda twists and turns will help cover up the responsibility of those circles in the U.S.A. that facilitated, directly or indirectly, Peking's actions." The attack...
...security by moving along the 4,500-mile Soviet-Chinese border, which is bristling with 44 divisions of the Red Army. Soviet troops could strike into the frozen, inhospitable terrain of Sinkiang, but a more likely target is Manchuria, China's industrial heartland. Analysts hopefully discount an air attack on China's nuclear faculty at Lop Nor as a "doomsday" option, one perhaps favored by Moscow's military brass, but not by the Politburo...
...officials scoffingly denied anything like the connivance alleged by Moscow, and persuasively insisted that Carter had indeed tried to deter Teng from any "unwise" action. The question was whether Washington, eager to normalize relations with Peking, might not have been inadvertently enlisted in China's diplomatic preparation for the attack. "Now we know why China showed such haste to normalize relations with the U.S.," said Senator Charles Percy after the invasion...