CHINA'S LESSON ON INGRATITUDE TO VIETNAM.
ARE THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE THE INGRATITUTE PEOPLE ? WHY THE CHINESE WERE ANGRY AGAINST VIETNAM? HERE IS THE REASON. FEBRUARY 17 ,1979 China aimed to teach Vietnam a lesson. IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE CHINESE MOTIVE , PLEASE TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS STATEMENT MADE BY SIHANOUK. "Prime Minister Pham Van Dong called on me and, in the presence of Premier Chou En-lai, swore in the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the latter would always respect the land frontiers as well as all islands belonging to the "Kingdom of Cambodia" March 1970 by Sihanouk . Wilfred Burchett book "The China Cambodia Vietnam triangle " P-176-177 WHAT GAME DID CHOU ENLAI ,PHAM VAN DONG AND SIHANOUK PLAY IN CAMBODIA FROM 1950-1979? I LIKE TO GIVE SOME MOVES FROM THE PART OF THE PLAYERS. March 22, 1970 ,Prince Sihanouk meets with Zhou Enlai in Beijing and is told: "...... China is determined to support Your Highness until Your Highness returns to his own country in victory. So long as Your Highness is determined to fight to the end, it is for certain that we will provide Your Highness with our support. Prince Sihanouk: "With China's support, I will persist in the struggle. No matter how long the struggle will last and how many difficulties it will endure, I will never yield." March 23, 1970 Prince Sihanouk, in Beijing, announces the formation of a National United Front of Kampuchea or FUNK with his former enemies, the Khmer Rouge, to struggle against the Lon Nol govt. THE FUNK TROOPS OF SIHANOUK ARE COMPOSED OF THE NVN/VC TROOPS STATIONED STILL IN CAMBODIA,AND THE KHMER ROUGE ,FUNDED ,FORMED ,CREATED, BY CHOU ENLAI/PHAM VAN DONG TO WAR AGAINST CAMBODIA . READ THIS INCOMPLETE AFP REPORT, AND TELL US WHAT DO YOU THINK ? Tuesday, February 17, 2009 China aimed to ‘teach Vietnam a lesson’: Expert 2/17/2009 AFP HANOI: On February 17, 1979, after months of verbal and armed clashes, China launched a massive offensive against Vietnam to teach its communist ally “a lesson” for becoming too independent for Beijing’s liking. Known as the Third Indochina War, the roots of the brief but bloody conflict lay in the ideological rivalries between China and the Soviet Union. During the war against the United States, Moscow supplied Vietnam with vital military aid. After the end of that conflict, Sino-Vietnamese relations were further strengthened when Hanoi rejoined the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), created by Moscow in 1949. Conversely, relations with China, which was establishing contacts with the United States, deteriorated further. Initially, the Chinese said their offensive was “limited” and not a claim on Vietnamese territory. Beijing’s declared objective was to punish Vietnam, whose troops had six weeks earlier invaded Cambodia to topple the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot, who was supported by China. The invasion of Cambodia was the final straw for Beijing, which decided it was time to put back in its place a Vietnam which was increasingly defying China’s authority in the region and had repressed its ethnic Chinese Hoa community, analysts said. Beijing also believed Vietnam had shown a lack of gratitude for valuable Chinese support during the war against the French and at the start of the conflict with the Americans. Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping launched the Vietnam offensive “to teach them a ‘lesson’,” recalled Jean-Claude Pomonti, long-time regional correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde. For China it was “a semi-success or semi-failure—the Vietnamese resisted well,” he said, but “it was no disgrace: Deng, who detested the Vietnamese, (meant to) put them on the right path.” “China wanted to attack us to force us to withdraw our troops from Cambodia,” said retired Vietnamese Lieutenant-General Vu Xuan Vinh. “But we were able to use many local forces. We did not fall into the trap.” The Chinese operation was preceded by an intense artillery bombardment against several locations along the 1,400km frontier between the two countries. Chinese troops then penetrated dozens of kilometres into northern Vietnam to take control of several towns, notably Lang Son, Cao Bang and Lao Cai, before withdrawing a month later on March 16. There is no reliable figure for the number of casualties, which varies according to source and country, but the war did claim tens of thousands of lives. DO NOT FORGET TO MENTION THE VIETNAMESE INVASION OF CAMBODIA TOO. 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