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The Sino-Vietnamese War was a border war fought between China and Vietnam in early 1979. China launched an offensive in response to Vietnam's actions against the Khmer Rouge in 1978, which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge.
Sino-Vietnamese War: Timeline
1960s - 1970s - North Vietnam receives military assistance from both China and the Soviet Union during the Vietnam War
April 1975 - The Vietnam War ends with North Vietnamese forces entering Saigon; Vietnam is reunified
1975 - Vietnamese-Chinese relations deteriorate because of a number of causes: Vietnam’s drawing closer to the Soviet Union, a disputed border between China and Vietnam, persecution of ethnic Chinese in Vietnam, Vietnam’s distrust of China’s intentions due to historical reasons
1975 - The Soviet Union provides large financial assistance to Vietnam’s post-Vietnam War reconstruction
June 1978 - Vietnam becomes a member of the Soviet-led Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon)
November 1978 - Vietnam and the Soviet Union sign the “Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation”, a mutual defense pact
December 1978 - Vietnam invades Cambodia (officially, Kampuchea), which angers China
1978 - Chinese and Vietnamese forces engage in many armed clashes and cross-border raids, raising tensions between the two countries
February 1979 - 30 Chinese divisions are deployed along the border with Vietnam
February 15, 1979 - China announces its plan to attack Vietnam
February 17, 1979 - 200,000 Chinese troops, supported by armored and artillery units, attack along two fronts across the 1,300-kilometer border with Vietnam; China justifies its invasion as a “self-defense counterattack” to “teach Hanoi a lesson”
February 18, 1979 - The Chinese offensive advances eight kilometers into Vietnam when it begins to experience increasingly strong Vietnamese resistance; Chinese forces also encounter logistical problems, with frontline units running low on water, food, and ammunitions, and also suffer high casualties after launching human wave attacks against entrenched positions
February 21, 1979 - With the arrival of an additional eight divisions, Chinese forces renew their offensive
February 27, 1979 - Chinese forces capture the provincial capital of Cao Bang
March 4, 1979 - Chinese forces capture Lang Son after bitter house-to-house fighting
March 5, 1979 - China orders its forces to withdraw from Vietnam
March 16, 1979 - Chinese forces cross the border into China after carrying out a scorched-earth campaign that devastate Vietnam’s northernmost provinces
July 1979 - China threatens to launch another attack to teach Vietnam “a second lesson” because of Vietnam’s continued military occupation of Cambodia
1980s - The border between China and Vietnam is heavily militarized and many armed clashes, artillery exchanges and cross-border intrusions take place
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