In the historical process of human development, war always seems to be with it. In ancient China, even a powerful feudal dynasty like the Tang Dynasty, the borders were inevitably harassed by the Turkic peoples. The Song Dynasty was even more serious, and the iron hooves of the Liaojin and Western Xia warhorses had occupied most of China.
In modern times, China has always been under the fire of imperialism, and the Chinese people have struggled to survive in the gap between imperialism and feudalism. However, even after the founding of New China, the situation at home and abroad was still not completely stable.
Because China's national strength was still very weak at that time, many imperialist countries were eager to move against our country, and they instigated China's neighbors to repeatedly provoke disputes at the border and try to disturb the social situation in our country, and Vietnam was one of them.
In the face of constant provocations from neighboring countries, in 1979, Deng Xiaoping decided to fight back against Vietnam, but his decision was opposed by other high-level members of our party, and the two sides were at a deadlock, but the words of Vice Premier Chen Yun of the State Council reversed the situation.
Internal and external troubles
After the founding of New China, although the domestic situation temporarily stabilized, people no longer had to worry about imperialist aggression, but the difficulties faced by the country did not decrease much compared with before.
Years of war have led to a very low level of agricultural production in China, the development of industry has almost stagnated, a considerable number of Chinese are still in the dilemma of not having enough to eat, and people are still far from the level of food and clothing.
Not only that, but the industrial development of New China is also very slow. At a time when other countries can build strong ships and cannons, China cannot even manufacture the most basic daily necessities of the people, and the gap between it and developed countries can be said to be very difficult to cross.
In terms of the international community, China's situation is also very embarrassing. Although China won the anti-fascist war, its international status did not improve much, and the world at that time was dominated by the two major powers of the United States and the Soviet Union.
As a socialist country, China received the help of the Soviet Union many times during the war, naturally sided with the Soviet Union, and thus was hostile to the United States and other capitalist powers.
But even though the situation at home and abroad is very difficult, Chinese people have not chosen to give up. Domestically, the Chinese people have summoned up all their vigor to develop production, and the level of productivity has been greatly improved.
Abroad, China plays the role of a messenger of peace, treats all countries that have expressed friendship with China warmly, puts forward the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, establishes good mutual assistance and cooperative relations with many countries, and breaks the isolation policy of imperialist countries.
In the face of China's growing strength, the imperialist countries led by the United States could not sit still, and they began to encourage China's neighbors to provoke disputes with China in an attempt to hinder China's development.
Provocation by neighboring countries
In 1976, the Vietnamese side arbitrarily broke China's Sino-Vietnamese Friendship Bridge on the Nanxi River in Hekou County, Yunnan Province, destroying the friendly relations between China and Vietnam, and vigorously suppressing the Chinese in its country, even shooting and killing the People's Liberation Army stationed on the Sino-Vietnamese border. Vietnam's move was undoubtedly a demonstration against China, causing the anger of the entire Chinese people.
In fact, China's previous relations with neighboring Vietnam were not bad, and China also helped Vietnam in the Vietnam War. But since the death of Vietnam's pro-China leader Ho Chi Minh in 1969, Vietnam's new leader, Le Son, has taken the pro-Soviet route in an attempt to gain Soviet asylum.
The Soviet Union's relations with China had broken down, and Vietnam had begun to take China for granted. In addition to being a "little brother" to the Soviet Union, Vietnam also has its own thoughts.
After the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnam began to invade its neighbors in Southeast Asia, not only taking Laos, but also capturing many cities in Cambodia, trying to annex these two countries and expand its territory, but due to the strength of China as a neighbor, this plan was never implemented. In the face of Vietnam's repeated provocations, the top level of the central government held a meeting overnight to jointly discuss solutions.
Deng Xiaoping angrily offered to send troops to Vietnam to give the arrogant neighbor a chance to dissuade him, but others disputed Deng's ideas on the grounds that China was in a period of development, that the people expected peace more than war, and that China did need to recuperate, and that frequent wars were a drain on national strength.
In addition to China's own problems, the United States and other countries are also always paying attention to China, if they rush to vietnam, they may be used by the United States to make a fuss and deviate from the principle of peaceful coexistence advocated by China. However, in the face of opposition from others, Vice Premier Chen Yun chose to side with Deng Xiaoping.
He said: "We cannot avoid war for fear of losing peace; on the contrary, some peace needs to be won by war." If Vietnam is ignored, it will only become more and more rampant in the future, and from then on, the Soviet Union's threat to our country will become greater and greater, which will inevitably hinder the long-term development of our country. Chen Yun's words were deafening, and the top level of the Party Central Committee finally decided to send troops to Vietnam.
Troops to Vietnam
Although Vietnam took the Soviet Union as a dependency, the Soviet Union's focus at that time was still in Europe, and it did not attach importance to the situation in Southeast Asia, and at that time, the main force of the Soviet Army was in Afghanistan, and our army attacked at this time, which would definitely make the Soviet Union anxious.
China's army was divided into east and west roads to march to Vietnam, and the People's Liberation Army, which has rich combat experience, occupied vietnam's provincial capital in only 60 hours, and then occupied LaoJie City and Lang Shan successively, and the entire army was like a bamboo. Lê Sun did not expect that China would really send troops to Vietnam, and for a while he panicked, so he hastily sent troops to fight back, but with little success.
After our army blew up the railways and factories in northern Vietnam, it achieved the purpose of this knock on Vietnam, and in March 1979, our People's Liberation Army withdrew its troops from Vietnam, and Vietnam also realized the strength of our country and no longer dared to act rashly.
brief summary:
The pursuit of peace is not a symbol of weakness, peace is just an attitude, people do not offend me, I do not offend. In the face of the wanton aggression of other countries, swallowing anger is definitely not the work of a big country, and the enemy will not be grateful for our concessions, but will become more and more rampant!
China will never take the initiative to invade other countries, but other countries cannot challenge China's territorial sovereignty and insult China's people.