At the end of the 1970s, our country ended the decade-long cultural revolution and began a new reform and opening up, and everything in the country was waiting for development. While waiting for development at home, our neighbor Vietnam did not stop provoking China's territorial sovereignty, so whether to organize forces to fight back against Vietnam in self-defense was a question that deng Xiaoping, the leader at the time, needed to think deeply about.
In the historical counterattack against Vietnam, which lasted for a month since the outbreak of February 17, 1979, China occupied more than 20 important cities in Vietnam in a short period of time, ending in China's victory. However, 1979 was an important time node in China's history, the first year of our reform and opening up, the domestic economy was still relatively difficult, and at that time China was ostracized by the Soviet Union, which was also a socialist country, and the situation was very embarrassing and the pressure was also very great.
Vietnam was also a victim of the us-Soviet hegemony, Vietnam could not complete the reunification for a long time, and when the new Vietnamese leader came to power, he chose to be close to the Soviet side of the world's military leader at that time, because the Soviet Union took measures to boycott China at that time, so Vietnam followed the trend and boycotted China. The exclusion of overseas Chinese in Vietnam, and even the continuous harassment and aggression against China's border areas, this is already a serious threat to China's territorial sovereignty. When China was concerned about whether to fight back against such provocative acts in Vietnam, Deng Xiaoping searched in many ways.
Ye Jianying, then defense minister, and Su Yu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, held opposing views. After all, at that time, China's domestic waste was waiting to be revived, the economy was in urgent need of development, and Vietnam was backed by the world military power of the Soviet Union, and it was not known whether the Soviet Union would intervene to help Vietnam in the war, and the situation of the war was really difficult to judge. But there are also people who support the Vietnamese counterattack, he is the elder figure of our party, Chen Yun, chen yun and Deng Xiaoping worked together in the government council in the early years, and the two have a deep friendship. Chen Yun proposed a quick decision to fight a war, so that the Soviet Union could not intervene without time to react, and Deng Xiaoping felt that Chen Yun's words were very reasonable, and he was determined to launch a counterattack war.
Sure enough, this counterattack took only a short month, and the Chinese army won an overwhelming victory, and after the victory, the army immediately withdrew from Vietnam, which greatly guaranteed the interests of China's border territories. More and more, he also knew that he was not An opponent of China, and after so many years of the Vietnam War, Vietnam did not have much capital within its own country to fight, and finally had to pursue a peaceful solution with the Chinese side.
Although we know that there are still disputes over territorial issues between China and its neighbors, but the national territory cannot be infringed upon by any country, as long as it threatens China's national sovereignty, we will pursue it to the end, China is no longer a backward and beaten country a hundred years ago, and we resolutely safeguard our national interests.