After the founding of New China, in the face of the tense and unstable international situation, the surrounding areas were still full of crises and urgent changes needed, so the development of a more advanced military industry was imminent. During the development of the military industry, several wars have also witnessed changes in China's military strength. Among them, the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam was a powerful counterattack launched by the rampant provocateurs after the founding of New China, demonstrating the strong combat level and high morale of the Chinese soldiers. After the outbreak of the war of counterattack against Vietnam, it immediately attracted the attention of the whole world, what is the different reaction of the international community to this?
Fighting against Vietnam
Vietnam has been ruled by China for a long time in history, and it has a clan relationship with China. However, from the 1840s and 1850s onwards, Vietnam was invaded by French forces, and the Qing Dynasty's suzerainty over Vietnam was diluted and disintegrated, and it became a French colony. Subsequently, after experiencing the War of Resistance Against France, Vietnam won liberation and independence. But France made a comeback, and China gave manpower and material assistance to Vietnam on the principle of harmony and friendship, helping Vietnam to defeat the French army. After the French army withdrew from Vietnam, the United States propped up the new regime in South Vietnam and sent a military assistance advisory group to South Vietnam.
As the contradictions between North Vietnam and South Vietnam intensified, the United States, in order to consolidate its position in South Vietnam, sent American troops to support the South Vietnamese army in the fight against the North Vietnamese army. China once again extended a helping hand in the War to Resist the United States in Vietnam, providing a large amount of economic assistance to Vietnam. After the end of the Vietnam War, Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated and Sino-US relations gradually thawed, and Vietnam frequently provoked China's borders with the support of the Soviet Union. Unable to bear it, China launched a counterattack against the Vietnamese forces that repeatedly harassed China's territorial security, and won the victory in less than a month.
International public opinion
After the outbreak of the war against Vietnam, various voices appeared in the international community, many of which had the same attitude, criticizing and accusing China of acting wrongly in the war against Vietnam. The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact strongly opposed the entry of Chinese troops into Vietnam and demanded that China withdraw from Vietnam as soon as possible. The countries in the Warsaw Pact were all interested in the Soviet Union, so they also followed the Soviet Attitude and stood up against it, but none of the countries sent troops to support. The Soviet Union, which supported Vietnam, only sent a few military advisers to Vietnam, and those countries that were dependent on the Soviet Union did not dare to act.
In addition to the voices of opposition, the majority of countries that remain neutral in the world, led by the United States, have chosen to remain neutral in this matter, and the United States believes that China's military action against Vietnam has not directly touched the interests of the United States, but only said that China and Vietnam should take a step back and immediately declare a ceasefire. At the same time, the Soviet Union did not take military action on this matter, the United States did not respond, and if the Soviet Union made large-scale military assistance to Vietnam, the attitude of the United States may change.
It was precisely because the camp led by the United States and the Soviet Union had a completely different attitude on the issue of the Sino-Vietnamese war that they restrained each other's actions of sending troops, and the Sino-Vietnamese war did not evolve into a larger conflict. There were fewer countries that supported China in the entire war of counterattack against Vietnam, and North Korea sided with China in this matter.
Because China and North Korea forged a deep friendship in the Korean War, it is not surprising that North Korea chose to support it. Regardless of the international attitude towards the Sino-Vietnamese war, China's attitude has always been that it is urgent to defend the border, so it punished Vietnam's provocations and withdrew from Vietnam after victory, without thinking of invading Vietnam.
Play a national prestige
The Chinese nation has repeatedly defeated the menacing foreign invaders with a tenacious and indomitable spirit, defended the frontiers of the motherland, and defended the dignity of the nation. The self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam has once again proved to all countries in the world the strength of the Chinese armed forces, truly played a role in the prestige of the country and the military, and won a long-term peace space for China's stable economic development. Today's China no longer has to bend over backwards to see the eyes of other countries, and the once arrogant countries are also dumbfounded.