After World War II, the world seems to have returned to peace, but in all corners and regions of the world, war has never really stopped, and in the international political situation where interests are paramount, local conflicts and contradictions have arisen in various places.
Headquarters of the "United Nations Army"
Since the founding of New China, China has always pursued the principle of independent peace diplomacy, actively cooperated with neighboring countries in establishing diplomatic relations, and even more fully assisted countries in the same camp of socialism. However, in the face of the rise of New China, the Western capital powers have suppressed and blockaded in every way, with the intention of strangling new China with great development potential in its infancy. In the face of the layers of isolation of the West, China did not sit still, and by virtue of the war to resist THE United States and aid Korea, the founding war made the Western powers see the tenacious will and combat strength of New China.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
Although the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea has made the Western powers jealous of China's strength, some small countries that once fought shoulder to shoulder with China and received China's dingli assistance are waiting for an opportunity to move, betray their faith, and repeatedly harass and occupy China's southwest border, seriously threatening the property security of the people on China's southwest border.
This small tropical country that will take revenge is what we know as Vietnam.
Vietnam in the last century
Vietnam and China were once good brothers in sharing hardships and hardships, and we and the newly established socialist new China are facing an urgent situation of internal and external troubles. At a time when New China was being blockaded and squeezed out by Western powers, Vietnam was still engaged in an independent struggle against aggression, and out of a peaceful diplomatic attitude, China still insisted on helping Vietnam and helping Vietnam get out of the quagmire, so the two countries gradually established a deep revolutionary friendship in the process of liberation.
China's aid to Vietnam
Later, when the United States launched the Vietnam War, China also helped to fund Vietnam's military weapons and armaments free of charge, and also helped Vietnam build infrastructure to promote Vietnam's development and progress. But what people did not expect was that overnight, Vietnam abandoned morality and principles, was ungrateful, and backstabbed our southwestern territory. In desperation, our country decided to launch a counterattack war in self-defense against Vietnam, so that the white-eyed wolf of Vietnam would pay a terrible price for his actions.
Self-defense counterattack against Vietnam
In 1979, after China launched a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, 16 countries unequivocally expressed their opposition to China's self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, while other countries expressed neutrality, except for Cambodia and North Korea, which explicitly supported China's counterattack against Vietnam.
But what does it mean that of the sixteen opposing countries, none of them have really sent troops to intervene? Why don't these countries dare to send troops?
The cause of the Sino-Vietnamese war
To understand why these sixteen countries sided with Vietnam, we must first understand the reasons for Vietnam's sudden hatred of our country.
Ho Chi Minh
Until the 1970s, China and Vietnam were very friendly cooperative alliances. Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh had very good personal relations with Chairman Mao, and even Chairman Mao personally told Ho Chi Minh: "You are in Vietnam, I am in Hunan, as long as there are difficulties, you can always ask us for help." And Ho Chi Minh praised the friendship between China and Vietnam in this way: "The friendship between China and Vietnam is deep, comrades and brothers." ”
However, at the time of Ho Chi Minh's death, the international situation ushered in earth-shaking changes. At this time, the former iron brothers of China and the Soviet Union parted ways due to ideological divisions.
Ho Chi Minh visits China
Along with the ideological split, the contradictions and conflicts of interest accumulated between China and the Soviet Union for many years were also on the verge of erupting, and eventually the two countries were at odds with each other, and the situation was the same as the water and fire, and a wave of anti-Soviet reaction was also set off in China. For a time, Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated to the point of almost fighting each other, the Soviet Union began to increase troops to China's northern border, and China also turned a large number of military forces from south to north, in time to deal with the Soviet surprise attack, China and the Soviet Union can be described as a sword and a sword, full of gunpowder.
China and the Soviet Union fought against each other
The Sino-Soviet rupture also meant that the relations between the members of the world socialist camp at that time were not strong. This was exactly what the United States, the Soviet Union's nemesis at the time, was happy to see. And what the Soviet Union did not expect was that the sino-Soviet confrontation during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union would become a major mistake of the Soviet Union, laying a huge hidden danger for the subsequent disintegration of the Soviet Union.
At this time, China was suppressed layer by layer by the disgruntled Soviet Union, forced into debt by the Soviet Union, withdrawn technical personnel by the Soviet Union, and even faced the economic blockade of the Soviet Union. The hostility and struggle between China and the Soviet Union continued until the mid-1960s, when the United States was in a state of inferiority in the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, so in the face of the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations, the United States began to secretly rejoice, and gradually changed the isolation policy toward China in the past two decades and took the opportunity to win China over.
The United States and the Soviet Union competed for hegemony
In the face of the loosening of US China policy and the US president's gesture of reconciliation toward China, China, which is deeply trapped in the quagmire of blockade and isolation, has begun to try to reach a strategic partnership with the United States and jointly deal with their current common enemy, the Soviet Union. Immediately, China seized the olive branch thrown by the United States in a timely manner and began to use the hand of the United States to break The deadlock in China's international situation, and China and the United States have since formally established diplomatic relations.
Nixon visited China
In the face of the joint attack between China and the United States, the Soviet Union felt a little threatened, and in order to curb China's rapid growth, the Soviet Union began to stir up Sino-Vietnamese relations. At that time, President Ho Chi Minh, who had the best relations with China, had passed away, the pro-Soviet faction in the Vietnamese Party was gaining momentum, and under the intervention and inducement of the Soviet Union, Vietnam quickly stepped into the Soviet camp, and this was only the beginning.
The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States undoubtedly gave the Soviet Union a sufficient reason to provoke Sino-Vietnamese relations. It should be known that before the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the war waged by the US military against Vietnam was officially concluded, and the vietnamese people all held a very hostile attitude toward the United States, the aggressor. The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States was regarded by Vietnam as China's betrayal of Vietnam, which also triggered Vietnam's hatred of China.
Vietnam War
They forcefully squeezed out overseas Chinese in Vietnam, completely disregarded China's help and favors to Vietnam, and set off an anti-China upsurge at home. At this time, the contradictions between China and the Soviet Union were also intensifying, and the armies of the two sides were fiercely fighting on the border line. Seeing that China's main military forces were stuck in the north, the Soviet army had no way to start, so they secretly aided the Vietnamese military weapons and instigated them to invade China's southwest border.
Vietnamese Army
With the support and inducements of the Soviet Union, Vietnam, who had just defeated the American army, had a growing self-confidence, feeling that the Chinese People's Liberation Army would not be their opponent, and that most of China's troops were concentrated in the north to defend against the Soviet Union, so the Vietnamese army launched a more brazen invasion of China's southwest border. But what Vietnam did not expect was that China would actually launch a large-scale attack on Vietnam in such a short period of time, and in this way, the Sino-Vietnamese War broke out.
Why did sixteen countries object?
After the launch of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, sixteen countries led by the Soviet Union strongly condemned China's attack on Vietnam and hoped that China would withdraw its troops. It is also reasonable for a dozen countries to oppose it - because they are all little brothers and followers of the Soviet Union.
At this time, in the stage of Sino-Soviet hostility and Soviet-Vietnamese friendship, in the face of China's attack on Vietnam, the Soviet Union naturally had to take other younger brothers to strongly condemn China in order to save face for the Vietnamese brother and symbolically come forward.
Of course, in the face of the strong condemnation of the Soviet Union and other countries, Our country did not pay attention to it, and as usual, it quickly attacked Vietnam as planned, and Vietnam was gradually defeated and retreated, and the army collapsed. However, at this time, Vietnam insisted on stubborn resistance, very hard-mouthed, and even preached before the war that it would fight the Spring Festival Gala in Nanning, China within a month, and then was quickly punched in the face by the People's Liberation Army.
In fact, vietnam is not without reason for such arrogance, and he firmly believes that the Soviet Union will not sit idly by and will come to vietnam's aid. But what Vietnam did not expect was that the entire war was fought from beginning to end, and the sixteen countries that condemned China, led by the Soviet Union, did not really intervene, and finally enabled the Chinese People's Liberation Army to attack all the way south unimpeded, and in less than thirty days it took Lang Shan, which was across the river from the Vietnamese capital.
Why didn't sixteen countries dare to send troops?
The Sino-Vietnamese war, which seems to be only a conflict between China and Vietnam, is actually a slight embodiment of the US-Soviet hegemony. The Soviet Union in 1979, after its war with China, lost the cooperative benefits of China, an important ally, and plunged itself into a situation of near isolation. At this time, the Soviet Union was not only facing tit-for-tat confrontation between China and the United States and Europe, but also had to bear the geopolitical pressure of the Middle East alone.
In addition, at this time, the Soviet Union also mistakenly invaded Afghanistan, resulting in its own deep war quagmire, the country's finances were tight, and gradually towards the situation of collapse, there was no time to take care of the life and death of the little brother of Vietnam. In contrast, at that time, the United States, the economy has gradually recovered and improved, and under the cooperation with China, it has reversed the passive situation in the previous struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, and even gradually grasped the initiative.
If the Soviet Union sends troops to Vietnam at this time, it will certainly cause a big move by the United States, and the consequences will be unbearable for the Soviet Union, which is relatively weak in the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, not to mention that Vietnam, a small country, is not worthy of the Soviet Union's assistance at such a great risk.
Since the Soviet Union did not move, it did not take a stand. Then, more than a dozen other countries under the Soviet camp did not dare to act easily, and they were actually unwilling to clash head-on with China and involve themselves in the quagmire of war. Therefore, these sixteen countries, led by the Soviet Union, are at best playing tricks and do not dare to really use force.