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In June 1978, China rescinded the appointment of its consul general to Ho Chi Minh City and informed Vietnam that it must close three of its consulates in China. [ 40 ] : 96 On 8 July 1978, the General Political Bureau of the Vietnamese People's Army released orders to adopt an offensive strategy against China, including attacking and ...
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.
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 ...
This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (November 2024) Vietnam War Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War in Asia Clockwise from top left: US Huey helicopters inserting South Vietnamese ARVN troops, 1970 North Vietnamese PAVN ...
Part of the Vietnam War China South Vietnam: 1974 1974 Arube uprising Uganda: Putschists 1974 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War. Part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict. Iraq: KDP: 1974 1975 1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict: Iran: Iraq: 1974 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus Turkey Cyprus Greece: 1974 1991 Ethiopian Civil War: EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM
Sino–Vietnamese War (1979) Vietnam China: Stalemate. Both sides claimed victory. Chinese withdrawal from northern Vietnam. Lê Duẩn: Sino-Vietnamese border conflicts (1979 – 1991) Vietnam China: Stalemate. China occupied some Vietnamese areas briefly and retreated. Normalization of bilateral relations. Lê Duẩn (until July 1986)
During the Cold War, the Indochina wars (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đông Dương) were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1946 to 1991, by communist forces (mainly ones led by Vietnamese communists) against the opponents (mainly the Vietnamese capitalists, Trotskyists, the State of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, the French, American, Laotian royalist, Cambodian and Chinese ...
CrisisWatch – Monthly bulletin, interactive map and database on ongoing conflicts by the International Crisis Group. Map of the world's conflicts Archived 21 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, by IRIN. History Guy's coverage of 21st century wars; Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK)