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  2. Sino-Vietnamese War - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese government had to spend money on maintaining a military presence at the Chinese-Vietnamese border, and on supporting its puppet government in Cambodia. Vietnam's scarce resources were drained, and economic conditions were bad throughout Vietnam. [5] Assessments of the strategic consequences of the war vary considerably.

  3. Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991) - Wikipedia

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    Vietnam responded by increasing forces stationed at the Sino-Vietnamese border, and China no longer had the overwhelming numerical superiority as it did in its campaign in February 1979. [14] In June 1980, the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) crossed the Thai–Cambodian border during the pursuit of the defeated Khmer Rouge. [8]

  4. China–Vietnam relations - Wikipedia

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    Both China and Vietnam faced invasion and occupation by Imperial Japan during World War II, and Vietnam languished under the rule of Vichy France. In the Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Guangdong , Vietnamese revolutionaries, led by Phan Bội Châu , had arranged alliances with the Chinese Nationalists, the Kuomintang , before the war by ...

  5. Battle of the Paracel Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Paracel Islands (Chinese: 西沙海战 (pinyin Xisha haizhan);Vietnamese: Hải chiến Hoàng Sa) was an engagement between the Chinese and South Vietnamese navies near the Paracel Islands on January 19, 1974.

  6. Indochina wars - Wikipedia

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    In 1988, the Vietnamese Government began withdrawing forces in earnest; the last men left in September 1989. The Third Indochina War also refers to the Sino-Vietnamese War, which was fought in February–March 1979 between the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Shortly after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia ...

  7. China in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnam War was a major event that shaped the course of the world in the second half of the 20th century. Although it was a regional conflict that occurred on the Indochinese Peninsula, it also affected the strategic interests of the People's Republic of China, the United States and the Soviet Union as well as the relations between these great powers.

  8. History of Vietnam (1945–present) - Wikipedia

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    Tension between Vietnam and China mounted together with China's rivalry with the Soviet Union and conflict erupted with Cambodia, China's ally. Vietnam was also subject to trade embargoes by the U.S. and its allies. [citation needed] The SRVN government implemented a Stalinist dictatorship of the proletariat in the South as they had done in the ...

  9. Haiphong incident - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese (specifically the Tu Ve militia) attacked the French from within Hanoi with machine guns, artillery, and mortars. [42] Thousands of French soldiers and Vietnamese civilians lost their lives. [6] The French reacted by storming Hanoi the following day, forcing the Vietnamese government to take refuge outside of the city. [43]