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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hanoi radio blared that Viet Nam's defense of Lang Son had inflicted more than 3,000 Chinese casualties, and that in just one coastal battle 50 miles southeast, Vietnamese forces had "trounced three battalions and wiped out 700 Chinese aggressors." In all, Viet Nam announced, its forces had killed...
Irate at the maltreatment of the Chinese, Peking?which had provided Hanoi with an estimated $14 billion in aid over the past two decades?abruptly cut off 21 current assistance projects. In June, as the last Chinese aid technicians went home, Hanoi yielded to longstanding Soviet blandishments and formally jumped...
Not that Viet Nam has come off much better. Hanoi's expansion into Laos and its invasion of Cambodia did much to demolish Viet Nam's widespread image in the Third World as a brave anticolonial underdog and show it up more as an Oriental 20th century Sparta intent on...
Other major revolts, in the third, sixth and tenth centuries, helped the Viets build a martial spirit, which was needed to ward off attacks from Tais in the west and Chams in the south. A dozen more wars and another ruthless Chinese occupation in the early 15th century reinforced the...
Chinese-American relations. U.S. policy was based on the notion that this country should not become involved in a conflict among far-off Communist states. Thus Washington evenhandedly urged Peking and Hanoi to withdraw their troops from both Viet Nam and Cambodia. Pursuing its honest-broker role, the U.S. also...