Forty years have passed since the war against Vietnam, and the Border between China and Vietnam has long since ceased to be what it was, but there is still a group of people who always remember that forty years ago, there was such a group of people who paid the price of their lives in southern Xinjiang for the safety of the motherland. The self-defense counterattack against Vietnam took place in 1979, and from the perspective of the course of the war, it can be divided into two parts, one is the large-scale campaign that began on February 17, 1979, and the second stage is the Sino-Vietnamese ten-year border rotation after the end of the large-scale battle of the war against Vietnam.
The war against Vietnam has not stopped for decades. Because this war in China's previous wars is particularly low-key, so people want to know more about this war, as the attention of this war is getting higher and higher, gradually some people have raised such a question, that is, the 1979 war against Vietnam, China's real opponent is not Vietnam, why would anyone say this? Does this make sense? Let's look down together. This statement is actually not unreasonable, or it should be combined with the international environment at that time.
The time of the war against Vietnam coincided with the fierce cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, and it was also the most rigid time in Sino-Soviet relations. Vietnam, as the other side of the war, did not satisfy China with its approach within three or four years of the end of the Vietnam War. This is because Vietnam, after ending the war of internal secession, changed its previous neutral stance in the face of the Soviet Union and China, obviously began to lean towards the Soviet Union, and at the instigation of the Soviet Union, re-picked up a so-called "Indochina" plan that the French wanted to achieve.
The plan includes not only many countries in Southeast Asia, but also China's Provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan. Vietnam dared to covet China's territory in large part because of the support of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was in the Cold War with the United States at that time, and for Asia, they had lost China, the most powerful ally, and the United States at that time China also established diplomatic relations with the United States, and had already made an attitude of not wanting to ease with the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union was to maintain its strength in Asia, Vietnam. It's about sanctioning China.
Therefore, behind the scenes, he supported Vietnam to launch a war, and it was precisely because of the support of the Soviet Union that Vietnam frequently harassed China's borders. Therefore, the Soviet Union was the real enemy of China in the war against Vietnam. The Soviets did not just provide weapons to Vietnam internationally or to send Soviet military advisories and state representatives led by senior Soviet generals to the Vietnamese border to direct the war between vietnamese troops and China. Even after the end of the massive campaign of the war against Vietnam, the Soviets did not give up.
For the next decade, he spared no effort to help Vietnam. However, Vietnam's war with China has always been a gradual defeat, especially during the ten-year round war against Vietnam, due to China's domestic reform and opening up, China's economic status in the international arena has gradually improved, and the domestic economic level has also continued to rise. During this decade, the Soviet Union gradually declined in strength due to political turmoil at home and international pressure from the United States abroad.
Eventually, in the late 1980s, the Soviet Union ended more than two decades of aid to Vietnam since the 1960s. After losing Soviet aid, Vietnam soon began preparations to end the war and withdrew its troops from Cambodia, beginning peace talks with China. So from this point of view, China's real opponent is not Vietnam, the statement can also be established, I don't know how everyone thinks about this issue, you can leave a message below we discuss it together!