Vietnamese women hold banners that read: “People will never forget Feb. 17, 1979” during a gathering in Hanoi, Vietnam, Feb, 17, 2016. More than 100 people gathered in Hanoi to commemorate the ...
Not only does the memory of war live on in Markley’s mind, but it manifests in numerous physical health problems that he ...
Key Point: Neither country really won but Beijing did not trounce Hanoi as it had expected to. Chinese operations against Vietnam in the 1980s are often divided into four phases. In the first, the ...
Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Sino-Vietnamese war is generally perceived in the West as humiliating for Chinese forces. Undeniably, the PLA sustained heavy casualties, took longer than it ...
The Sino-Vietnam Friendship Bridge over a river separating China, right, and Vietnam. Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In February and March 1979, China fought a bloody three-week war ...
Vietnamese activists on Sunday marked the 35th anniversary of a bloody border war with China, chanting slogans, singing patriotic songs and laying flowers at a temple in central Hanoi. The two ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military has promoted an army general who fought Vietnam in a brief border war in 1979, the Defence Ministry said, part of a broad reshuffle expected as part of this autumn ...