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  1. The Sino-Vietnamese conflicts of 1979–1991 were a series of border and naval clashes between the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam following the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979.

  2. Dec 12, 2020 · by Sebastien Roblin. Here's What You Need to Know : The Sino-Vietnamese war is generally perceived in the West as humiliating for Chinese forces. At 5 AM on February 17, 1979, a massive...

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  4. Nov 2, 2012 · The French deployed a quarter million troops to Indochina following the Second World War to maintain its colonies in the region only to be defeated there in 1954. A decade later, America intervened and then suffered its worst military humiliation in history. In 1979, it would be China’s turn.

  5. February 1979, its forces invaded Vietnam in strength. The Carter administration felt obliged to favour China (especially given residual American hostility to North Vietnam) and supported Peking’s offer to evacuate Vietnam only when Vietnam evacuated Cambodia.

  6. Feb 17, 2022 · What happened? On this day in 1979, [1] hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops poured across Vietnam’s northern border launching a bloody invasion of its ideological bedfellow. The conflict lasted for nearly a month, from February 17 to March 1979.

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