Quote: The Role of the United States in the Sino-Vietnamese War
There are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies. This sentence is a famous saying of all countries in the world in handling international relations.
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After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), China became hostile to the United States several times on the issues of Korean War, Vietnamese War and Taiwan Province Province. However, with the split between China and the Soviet Union in the 1960s, China was gradually abandoned by the producer camp and became a loner. Looking around, he doesn't have any friends. Lenovo of the former Soviet Union used Vietnam to achieve a comprehensive strategic encirclement of China, and the situation was extremely unfavorable to China.
America is not much better at this time. It became more and more unfavorable in the Vietnam War, and failure was a foregone conclusion. Through the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the United States learned about China's strength, and some people in the United States began to advocate the all-round development of relations with China, hoping to curb the expansion of the former Soviet Union in Asia through China.
This is surprisingly consistent with the interests of China. So the two sides hit it off, put aside their differences and began the process of normalization of relations. China's proximity to the United States undoubtedly poses a major threat to Vietnam and the Soviet Union. The former Soviet Union accelerated its efforts to win over Vietnam, and Vietnam immediately began anti-China actions after the reunification of the North and the South. Finally led to the beginning of the counterattack against Vietnam.
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Whether China and the United States have reached an agreement on China's counterattack against Vietnam in self-defense remains a mystery. But what is certain is that Deng Xiaoping immediately launched an offensive after returning from his visit to the United States, at least with the acquiescence of the United States. Then the performance of the United States just proved this point.
After the war broke out, the former Soviet Union-led producer camp (except Yugoslavia) strongly condemned China's "aggression" and demanded that the United Nations Security Council impose sanctions on China. At the same time, the former Soviet Tass news agency and radio stations also condemned the connivance and acquiescence of the United States in its invasion of China. Pravda said that Deng Xiaoping launched an attack on the third day after returning from his visit to the United States. "Therefore, no matter how to conceal and distort it, it is impossible to conceal the direct and indirect responsibility that the United States should bear for this war."
On the first day of the war, although the State Council issued a statement demanding that China immediately stop its military operations and withdraw its troops, it also condemned the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. At the subsequent emergency meeting of the Security Council, China and the Soviet Union proposed mutual condemnation. On the contrary, Americans seldom act as third parties and stand by and judge right and wrong. 1979 On February 25th, with the joint efforts of China and the United States, the United Nations agreed to speak on behalf of the overthrown Khmer Rouge government in pol pot. As a result, Karamov, the representative of the former Soviet Union, walked out to protest. The sanctions against China proposed by the former Soviet Union will be lifted.
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According to unconfirmed news, the United States also provided "assistance" to China in the Vietnam War.
After the war broke out, the US Pacific Seventh Fleet quickly assembled in the Beibu Gulf, giving people the feeling that China and the United States were fighting together.
At the same time, the United States also provided China with satellite images of former Soviet troops assembled at the border, followed them at any time and reported them to the Chinese side at any time. There are more specific rumors: 1979 In early March, when the People's Liberation Army surrounded the 3 16 division of the Vietnamese army with superior forces, it thought it was a shoo-in, but American satellites found that the 3 16 division was just bait for the Vietnamese army, and the PLA was surrounded by the main force of the Vietnamese army, which was very dangerous. So the United States quickly informed the Chinese side, so that China's army escaped.
Whether the above rumors are true or not, from the national interest, the United States and China were indeed "comrades in arms in the trenches". Because during the cold war, "the enemy of the enemy is our friend", the United States knows this well.