The China-Vietnam War of 1979 (Made Simple) 

Considering how messed up Cambodia was, anyone invading Cambodia is the good guy. Now, for China to punish Vietnam for this invasion, put China on the wrong side in the history (not the first nor last time)

@@Chemicalkinetics USA was on the wrong side also because they condemned the Vietnam invasion.

@@Chemicalkinetics USA also was on the wrong side of the history because U.S. support and funding the Khmer Rouge guerrillas. It was "pivotal" to keeping the organization alive to USA, and was in part motivated by revenge over the USA defeat during the Vietnam War. Even USA keep support the seating of Pol Pot's "democratic Kampuchea" regime in the United Nations in 1980.

No fucking way Vietnam has ever been the good guy. That would mean the whole UN and US were bad guys because they supported the Khmer Rogue and China (after the punishing Vietnam)

Vietnam did not invade Cambodia for Humanitarian relief. No sovereign government will put the welfare of other nations above their own

Why hasn't Australia or Canada ever had a Pol Pot?

@@cashewnuttel9054 I’m confused, what kind of a question is this?

@@cashewnuttel9054 Let's see. Starting from a fairly hommogenous ethnic makeup, going to the fact that one is an island and the other only borders the strongest military power in history. Of course, we are not counting the genocides committed upon the Aboriginals and Amerindians. Then there is the fact that both were semi-autonomous parts of the British Empire until very recently, and technically still fall under the same head of state as the UK to this day.

@@HoangTran-wu6se He's trying to insinuate that the reason why Pol Pot happened was due to Communism. Completely ignoring the fact that Vietnam was the only country to man up and put an end to his reign of terror.

Hitler at least didn't kill his own people so Pol Pot was much worse

Don't forget the French before they fought the Americans

@@hernanefrain6085 and the Japanese before the French.

@@theodoreolson8529 and then the French again before the Japanese, and the Chinese before them. Talk about a bum deal. Did Vietnam ever attack anyone? Nope, they were pretty much the good guys in every conflict they fought.

Meanwhile Thailand be like, pls don't notice us.

Well you can cheer right up, because China, Vietnam, and Cambodia are extremely close these days. Their governments have been successfully cooperating on all manner of fantastic transnational projects! :)

My parents have friends who fought on the Chinese side. The country was just out of the Cultural Revolution and there were no proper training for that batch of the soldiers, and fighting with an army who just finished fighting with the US was extremely difficult. A friend of my mom was injured with a bullet piercing through his arm without damage to his bone. His squadron leader made it clear it's best for him to go back without registering as officially injured. Initially he thought it's unfair and was quite unhappy. Later he realized that the state owned employers don't like to hire "handicapped veterans". He became a official in the Department of Agriculture and his career benefited from being a veteran without injury. Their cohort of veterans are the forgotten generation in China too - this is a war that barely get mentioned in any textbooks.

​​@@liryan My mum's high school classmate also fought for China in this war. He didn't die on the battlefield, but he died when his armoured vehicle hit a land mine when they were returning home. What a sad story.

My father was on the Vietnamese side in 1981. He has ptsd from this, a night during rain he would have episodes. He would never talk about where he was deployed, but he told me that he came to war at 17 forced by his father a Vietnam War Veteran abusively. He told me the friends he made in the army were about 10. 12 people were in his group. 3 of those people made it out alive, it was my dad, his last friend and the commander. They are still friends today, the commander passed away 4 years ago. They never talked about the war with cambodia. It was only brought up during deep moments when they were rethinking of own times. I overheard him saying he was sad that his friend that used to do pranks with him never grew old but died at 19 being shot in the eye and the shoulder. It was morbidly true. Both of them drinks over calls as my dad lives in America and his friend who he usually calls the dumbass lives in Vietnam.

@@liryan And I am from here... the other side of the world. Chile, studying this war. I have studied Khmer Rouge a lot. Thanks for your comments! It's very interesting to know detailed stories here.

@@Chinacommunist Reading about these stories I have came to conclussion that traumatized veterans never talk about war, regardless of culture. I am glad that Vietnam is now thriving and a safe, peaceful place. Cheers from Chile

Ever since china first dynasty to be exact, since then Vietnamese ancestors can't do anything but got occupied

You can say the same on Mexican - USA opinion. Only difference is the time, 1000 years is crazy. Both Vietnam and China should be proud of that.

Viet used to be written with chinese characters😂

@@dannywang4673 Proud of it? I don't understand.

@@youarebeingtrolled6954 Chinese-like characters. Not Chinese characters.

Guess why (hint: Chinese expansionism and thirst for control over the region that has been around for centuries)

@@maiquanghuy8807This. Vietnam only wanted to live in peace but those greedy Chinese bastards kept invading us over and over again for thousand years.

Dated Vietnamese woman and she did not have anything good to say about the Chinese.

@@mikebeatty7814 It runs in our blood bro. Many Westerners have misconception that Vietnam and China are brother-alike countries. Hell nah they been enslaving our ancestors for eternity 💀

@@mikebeatty7814 even Chinese living in south Vietnam did not have anything good to say a bout China

Your extreme socualist ideal is a joke in vietnam plus US withdraw from vietnam in 1973/1974 after signing truce treaty with north and south vietnam until north vietnam broke their promise to invade the south when all US military withdraw. US didnt win the war. They left vietnam due of treaty. How does it feel about china conquered vietnamese islands and taking huge space of Vietnamese water border in south china sea?

Deng Xiaoping and Le Duan: friends since Summer Camp of 79

@@Mr_M_History we always speak of the summer of 69, but the real times were had in the summer of 79

Booooooooooooo!

@@Mr_M_History Le Duan is aware of this attack even before Deng xiao ping rose to power. He was show disappointed with Liu Shao Qi for quite sometime when they meet. But CPC wont stop their ambition of taking Vietnam under their command rather than Soviet. Vietnam try to ease the tension between these two but its no help. around this border war. Us make pact with China because they want an enemy for Viet Nam. Which resulted in China support Pol Pot regime and pressing border to help khmer rouge. And the after math is an open relationship between China and US.

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in the Soviet Union's defend, they were barely holding onto themselves, with their failures in Afghanistan and Eastern bloc countries leaving the Union. The fact they still continue to help Vietnam after all that is already a testament of how valuable Vietnam was to the Russian. The Russian may not be the toughest ally for Vietnam, but they are at least trustworthy. US's friendship on the other hand, usually come with an expiration date of 20 years, unless you pay them with inflation.

​@@kaleidoscope3234 well vietnamese people actually didnt blame the soviet, they just learn a hard lesson that you can not trust anybody except yourself. Nowaday people still have positive opinion on russia, even after the bloody mess in ukraine

@@kaleidoscope3234 sure, but a fickle ally in the US is still far better than succumbing to Chinese interests. Most Vietnamese people actually like the USA and the vast majority absolutely despise the Chinese, so if WW3 were to happen we ( the Vietnamese) would most likely join on the side of the West. That is, of course, in the fantasy scenario where we don’t nuke each other to oblivion first.

@@DuyNguyen-sg7pwAnd that’s what messed up. When you would rather to side with the person who used to help you, but is now causing a bloody war to others. In other words, judgement by emotions instead of logic

@@-_XD well cant blame them. The ukraine torn down Lenin's statue and hatred toward their communism past just make vietnamese people dislike them, and their diplomatic spokeman in vietnam just pour oil in to the fire. Beside, a lot of people actually dont want or care about ukraine, they want the west (espcially the american) to lose. We seen a lot of hypocrist after the war broke out

The maintained control of Cambodia, it’s clear they came out better off than China.

@badofi I teach Stinklish in Cambodia. About half of my students are racially from Vietnam. It's ridiculous to see a Siamese guy believe that Angkor is his heritage just 'cause his nationality is Cambodian. People don't know anything, in every country I've been to. The masses are blind and easily manipulated.

The best Chinese soldiers are at northern China to defend if soviet attack China to help vietnam.Fight to vietnam army are not best Chinese soldier

@@dk.magic.mobile108 really if China try to get those troop for that go war Vietnam . Russia and Vietnam will attack and strike just like Nazi Germany in 1945 and USA they happy to see that Hong Kong still in UK today

No? Destroyed industrial base, embargoed by most of the world (for stopping a genocide), over 100k deaths. China got billions of Western money pouring in (for supporting a genocidal regime), Deng Xiaoping got to reform the army because of how much of a shitshow this was.

Vietnam withdrawn because they thought that the new cambodia is strong enough to defend against the khmer rouge

Thanks as always Brent! Really appreciate all the kind feedback!

He don't fully explain why Vietnam attacked Cambodia

Yeah there's some real bad blood. Have family on both sides and the grandparents still alive are still raw about it. Three sides of every story. Each side and the outside observation that can have a bias....

等等，中国进攻越南，你为什么不提越南接受了中国大量的援助却迫害45万中国人。中国和越南的借口是一样的。

@@user-or1bq1xn6r ôi nhưng có ai chết không , không có , bên việt nam có không , có và hàng nghìn người

@@user-or1bq1xn6r nói dối thì cho thông minh vào chứ nói thấy logic nhưng thiếu bằng chứng về sự so sánh ngu xuẩn của bạn

​​@@user-or1bq1xn6r What the exactly was the 'persecution' Vietnam committed against Chinese Vietnamese can you tell me?! You Chinese are so lame!

That is absolutely true! Sorry I can see how the video came across as suggesting that they went to defend the Northern border

@穆黑保素姛议员 Are you referring to 1978 ? Because the Vietnamese main army was in Cambodia and 240,00o Chinese went up 50,000 militias 1/2 were women, get your history together buddy.

@badofi I can send you links if you like , but is really common knowledge at this point, you can find it yourself, you’ll find plenty of information including lots of documented pictures as well.

HANoi HAN Chinese HANgul KHAN (Genghis) Probably more examples of this recurring theme.

@@scintillam_dei Ha Hoi, named after a river. But y’know, the north Vietnamese accent is like the Irish accent of English (it might as well be Chinese or it’s own language)

thx man we appreciate it

Perfect friend that fights everybody?

@@micholitzia5726 You rather a friend that screams while y’all getting jump.

@@micholitzia5726 Let's think about who started the war! Pol Pot Kill Vietnamese and invaded Vietnam first, and China started the war first

aww thankyou so much

Well the Viets were in Cambodia before to help Pol Pot get into power.

@@tritium1998 Yeah, to spread Stalinist communism. But no one knew that Pol Pot intended to follow Marxism to the letter (Well except maybe China who supported him). But unlike most countries like the US for example, we went back to fix our mistake.

@@tim4570 So Stalinist communism is basically a hippie version of Polpotism?

What Vietnam did in Cambodia is basically what Russia is doing in Ukraine.

@@tritium1998it was not Vietnam who helped Cambodia , it was China , Vietnam had been doing war with America and allies since 1955 😒 wonder why both Pol Pot and China attacked Vietnam at the same time from furthest point of our homeland ?. 🤓🤓

毛主席没有一点糊涂

The damages China inflicted during the border conflict was actually very limited, since the PLA never did manage to penetrate deep into the Red River Delta where most of northern Vietnam's production are located. The border regions they did manage to occupy had almost zero industrial capacity at that time since they're located in mountainous terrain. Most of the infrastructure that was destroyed was transportation, since those regions served as trade hubs into China, which was no longer relevant by then. My uncle served in the army at the time and in his opinion the occupation of Cambodia cost us a lot more than skirmishes with China.

@@cuongle7990 Yeah the Chinese pull out rather quickly without further attacking Hanoi due to the fact that Deng Xiaoping's Goal was achieved. So I agree that the damage was within a controllable range. The real problem for Vietnam is the notion that it might be at war on two sides anytime the Chinese find it suitable.

@@anthon_tmk9788 Major troop of China was still in defense from Soviet Union.

Vietnam had to spend many resources, both in manpower and in economic terms to have to fight and defend against china, which could have been used for Vietnam's development. Even worse was it made an enemy of China and became an isolated international parish state for decades until it normalized relations with china. Being an enemy of china means Vietnam missed out on all the trade with their closest biggest neighbour, which is massive for a country like Vietnam. Just see how much Vietnam grows after it normalized relations with china and copied china's model and allowed Chinese investment and technology. Even more so that just economic, was strategic. Vietnam realized it can never become enemies of China, it will never end well for Vietnam and no one can or will save or help Vietnam. This was further cemented with continuing clashes including the Johnson south reef incident in 88, where china killed like 60+ viet navy and sunk multiple warships while china lost like 1 or something. Obviously all this has major repurcussions on Vietnam's current foreign policy with it's 3 or 4 nos policy, which is obviously to keep China happy, since Vietnam knows if it aligns with USA or Russia, China will not be scared and no one can protect Vietnam if China wants to teach Vietnam another lesson. So even if China lost 30,000 and Vietnam lost 30,000, in terms of things for China that short war was not worth mentioning, it did not affect chinas economy or anything at all, while it affected Vietnam badly like I said. During the whole time china normalized relations with USA and Chinas economy under Deng took off, unlike Vietnam's who became pariah and basically stagnant economy until it became friendly with China again.

​@@chester0608ye imagine pulling the full forces then. Not only the Soviets would take chances at China and Vietnam by many times in history , hold off the sea of men. That would be much more embarrasing

it do not being over shadow it on purpose cause both side look bad, and they support to communist allies.

Thanks so much bro! Very keen to check out the look of your channel. Crazy how you would have had that exposure to those stories as a kid!

My uncle who fought in the war saw the Vietnamese using Chinese-supported flour as sandbags, which also made him furious. I doubted it till I see your story, now I'm convinced.

@@anthon_tmk9788 the Chinese government starve them not the Viet. If they decided to give ration to the Viet it’s the higher up problem. And it was not out of charity or anything, you guys have an old saying, the enemies of my enemies are my friend. It was an alliance but the Vietnamese want independence not a puppet regime and they were right since Pyongyang miserable state is clearly not what the Vietnamese wanted. Given China political and economic victory overall the Vietnamese also got what they wanted so they didn’t end up like Tibet, Myanmar and North Korea. And let be honest here, ethic Chinese in Vietnam ran away from China for various reasons and a ton of them ran away from CCP. If the Great Leap Forward and cultural revolution didn’t kill enough people for you to realize the government didn’t really care about the citizens I have no word. Or Tian An Meng 1989 for example. Why would they care about all those people running away from China. I talked to a few Chinese - Vietnamese and they don’t like CCP in the slightest. People are a combination of individuals, in reality you shouldn’t take thing on face value. CCP tried to take over Mongolia and they already messed up Myanmar atm. Put yourself in those people shoes you will understand how the Viet fought for the independence. It’s hypocritical that in one way you anger at the Japanese for Nan King massacre and in another you supported Pol Pot mass murdering regime. Nobody like to be bullied or killed. It’s basic logic apply to all people Chinese, Vietnamese or not. In the end, nobody should die for geopolitic bull shjt and racial status. They are relic of the past, you live in the 21st century. You have no reason to hate on someone you don’t even know let alone killing them while risking your life. It’s not like medieval time where technology can’t produce enough goods and food to survive, everyone should be able to enjoy life not die for those ambitious monsters.

Those are immoral lies. Invaders always justify their sins. We used to be so hungry that we had to eat grain that was only animal feed. There's no reason why Vietnamese waste food. Meanwhile, before the war, China cut back on aid. So it's not like we had a lot of food at that time.

It was the only the USA who tried to help the Cambodians fight off the Khmer Rouge

China and USA are like two angry dogs barking at each other on different sides of a fence but don't realize they are more alike than they know.

@@trevormccarthy9019I thought both USA and China support Khmer Rouge?

If you look into it you will see that the US military actively supported the Sihanouk govt in its fight against the Khmer Rouge.. it wa sbasically the only help they got. ..it is however true that the US was concerned about the subsequent Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia as it still had Thailand as a neighboring ally and feared they wouldn’t stop there.@@huynhvuongviet2410

将篱笆移动 10 米，就像一个农民想象一个皇帝用金锄头工作。你缺乏想象力。你知道移动整个边界围栏的困难吗？只移动一个栅栏有什么意义？你应该去边境观察它

@@wangbuhai “Little Pinks”

As an American I can say fighting Ho Chi Minh was a great mistake and a true tragedy

Who said?

@@Jameshesnandes ?

​@@JameshesnandesThis is indeed one of the important reasons. Vietnam had Soviet supporters who did some bad things to the people on the Chinese border. There was also Soviet support in this war.

Người trung quốc ở Việt nam nhưng lại thờ Mao ,không chịu đổi quốc tịch và họ sẵn sàng ủng hộ trung quốc. LÊ DUẨN cho họ cơ hội làm Người Việt nhưng họ không chịu thì cút về nước thôi

There were also South Vietnamese ARVN veterans that took part in the invasion as well, although they were of coarse a minority

And in…I mean liberate Cambodia

Dont forget the Mongols , French and japan

@@risingstar9903 what were they supposed to do? US let Thailand house Pol Pot on their border and China kept resupply them. You expect Hunsen and his people to fight Khmer Rouge? They already killed 20% Cambodian at that time, the Viet occupation was the best deal available for them realistically speaking and in the end they return the territory anyway. I don’t get it, is not dying and not having 1/5 of your relative die good enough? Look at fricking Myanmar. Thing is a disaster and their people trying to get rid of the CCP backed dictator military general.

France had control of Vietnam for 67 years. That’s a long time to be a puppet.

Vietnamese kick China's ass? LOL, if it hadn't been for the supply from China, the PLA would have hit Hanoi long time ago.😅

人道和安全感一样都只是侵略与征服的借口而已

Then invade? Sounds more like Japan or German in WWII.

@@jimmyvan6817 Invaded after 3 attack by the Khmere Rough on VN borders teritories and failed attempt to reasoning with Pol Pot, Khmere Rough murdered Vietnamese civilains, some were buried alive. Cambodian government also openly raised a propoganda Campaign if every Cambodian kill 30 Vietnamese, they will win and successfully capture southern Vietnam which belonged to Khmere Empires few hundred years before, so every Khmere should join army and kill 30 Vietnamese. And Vietnam was not interested at capturing Cambodian territories or anything, only at removing Pol Pot regime and settle election inviting even anti-communists party of Cambodia to participate, which found asylum in Thailand after Khmer Rough took power in Cambodia. But if you find invation an absolutely negative thing than there is nothing that can convince you, Vietnam should just let the Cambodian keep killing Vietnamese in border area, like a rape victim should endure and enjoy the process. Before Vietnam decided to invade and remove Pol Pot regime they already conducted a quick and limited military operation after 2nd attack of Khmere Rough on their boder just to demonstrate strength, they ignored the first attack btw way. But Khemre Rough after quick defeat at the border and withdrawal of Vietnamese forces just come back and shell border villages killing more civilians. So the Vietnamese didnt woke up at the morning and decided it is good to invade their neighbour out of boredom, especially they had 2 devastating wars in a row against French then US, and were living on ruins. The Vietnamese "invading force" liberated hundred thousands victimes of Pol Pot regime from concentration camps, the infamouse "Killing Fields", feed them and help them rebuilding their country, then leave in peace, not taking an inch of land, so have some respect for their deed, they lost 130,000 people fighting Pol Pot and the Chinese, when wanted nothing but peace. Btw you know what the West did? Supported Khmere Rough both by providing them with weapons and media backup portraying Khmere Rough as brave resistance against Vietnamese invaders, no word about pyramids of skulls of their own people they murdered in "Killing Fields", no word about Vietnamese citizen murdered by Khmere Rough, the West was with China on this matter, they sanctioned Vietnam and later force Vietnam to allow Pol Pot to participate in election campaign for new Cambodian army, which ironically make Cambodain communists and anti-communists join force and kicked Pol Pot representative from Cambodia, he fleed on an UN helicopter the same day he arrived in Phnom Penh. But what I can say the West love dictators, like some people love to pet dangerous wild animals, to make them feel superior.

Sounds like Russia finally getting sick of the Nazis in Kyiv and staging an intervention in Ukraine. ZOV!

@@jimmyvan6817mày qua tấn công biên giới giết dân tao để yên cho mày ah.một lần nói không nghe nhiều lần thì tiêu diệt

Stop lie chinese .

不用太在意过去了，现在我们想作掉越南是分分钟的事，越南在各方面都跟我们差了十万八千里

A tactical failure? We just want to tear down all those factories in North Vietnam that we are assisting and make them invest more in the border war so they can't recover and rise again anytime soon. We don't care if they think they are the real winners.

China's war goal is to completely remove Vietnam from the threat list, not to wipe the country off the face of the earth. At the very beginning of the war in 1979, the Central Military Commission received a plan from the top commander of the front line, Xu Shiyou, who planned to eliminate the Vietnamese front line troops by driving half of his advance troops through Laos into the narrowest part of central Vietnam. The plan was rejected after discussion.DengXiaoping, the head of the Central Military Commission, replied: 'Our goal is to teach Vietnam, not to destroy it. China's strategic goal was clear: to minimize the impact of the situation and to completely destroy the industries that had previously provided to Vietnam. It is hard to say who will win or lose this war, because at the beginning, China's characterization of this war is a drama, and this drama is played for Western countries. So you have a very strange phenomenon in that period, where a country can invade and not only not face sanctions, but also attract investment from the world. In the decade following the withdrawal of Chinese troops from Vietnam, troops in various parts of China gained experience on the Vietnamese border, until Gorbachev visited China in 1989, the drama had no audience, and China naturally signed a peace treaty with Vietnam. As for Vietnam, the war was devastating for them.

China's intentions were not in Vietnam at all, apparently they have been reached, it is a secret cooperation between the US and China

😂 các nước lớn họ nắm mọi lợi thế bạn biết đấy. Họ phải lấy lí do để chiến đóng hay xâm lược nươc khác. 😂

Sounds like how people are misreacting to the Russian intervention against the Nazis of Ukraine. Directions are the good guys stopping a fascist government in the course of genocide, but good Ukrainian PR is somehow making the villain into the hero and the perpetrator into the victim.

This is false. The Chinese military records leaked to western sources confirm 25,000 Chinese deaths and some 33,000 Vietnamese

What??? 600,000 Chinese soldiers KIA in three weeks of claches???? LOL, Dude, were the Vietnamese using tacticle nukes to eliminated all those Chinese soldiers in such short period of times? The official number of chinese soldiers participated in this conflict were 300,000 strong. Even if all of them were KIA, where the other 300,000 chinese soldiers KIA? Dude, u need to take some pills.

How would they know? Did they count every corpse in body bags brought through their towns on the way back to China? And when the war was over they all compared notes and figured it all out? 600,000 is a ridiculous number. I don't like china at all but I'm not willing to throw logic out the window on that.

当没有中国人的时候，越南骗子总会乱说🤣👉

Liar

Nah what you read is purely made up. Vietnam never wished to expand beyond its borders, the khmer rouge back then were the ones that initiated the conflict by attacking vietnamese villages. Vietnam even tried to resolve the tension using diplomatic channels but was ignored by UN so pol pot can continue his attacks, so vietnam decided that's enough and took up arms to get rid of pol pot and his goons, not because it wanted to become a SEA federation.

请问中国为什么要顶着苏联的威胁入侵越南？那段时间正是中苏交恶，苏联指使越南入侵中国

很少中国人中国人不会说话，你这个骗子太轻松了

Accusing Vietnam of imperialism mindset while occupying Tibet and tried to do the same with Vietnam and Mongolia is very projection. Let be honest here, the Chinese wanted their border countries under their influence, the US needed a new big Asia rival for USSR. Don’t need to bring moral here because it’s clear that both Chinese leaders and whoever the US presidents was lack those.

Bro learned history from Mixue

Maoists have a habit of doing this - as well as slaughtering the civilians they were supposed to be "liberating". The Shining Path in Peru worked cheerfully with drug traffickers while killing off non-Maoists, Unita in Angola - led by the Chinese trained Jonas Savimbi - allied with South Africa against the MPLA , the Naxalites in India spent more time torturing and murdering peasants than fighting their oppressors and the Maoist Pan African Congress in South Africa killed as many ANC supporters as members of the Apartheid security forces!

Not very true, Vietnamese still deeply care about communism as it was the ideology that made them so strong and durable, and they still care to maintain the form of socialism that they have currently. Their liberalisation reforms were pushed more so due to being forced to by sanctions.

I guess fighting the Mongols, China, French, Japan, French, U.S.A., Cambodia makes you care about Communism, then I to am a Communist. Vietnam before any ideology is a culture and peoples that deeply love their identity in order to fight and preserve it. That is what makes any country sovereign.

@@stratospheric37 I always have a little chuckle when start to think about it. The Viet Minh/Viet Cong/Socialist republic of Vietnam beated Japanese, French, Americans, Saigon's goverment, Red Khmers and Chinese asses just on their own and every single time was completley victorious. But the only enemy they couldn't defeat no meter what in the end was... THE INVISIBLE HAND OF MARKET!

The US is gay and truthphobic. Glad I left that shithole before the next civil war and WW3. Good riddance to it.

To summarize, china, when expansionist, has always tried to subjugate vietnam, where as the war with the USA was more of a one time thing that most consider water under the bridge

Nah, why do you think number 2 was achieved?! China had only dared to stay inside Vietnam for 3 weeks, Vietnam-USSR alliance was for wars, not for banditry incursions. The USSR wasn't sure if China was serious about it and would dare to really have a war with Vietnam so she gave it some time and she was right! China ran home faster than she could finish yawning! LOL! And with a big loss too! In only three weeks, the treacherous snake had managed to lose tens of thousands! Like half of what the US did in 10 years in Vietnam! China-Pol Pot alliance was the farce here. Vietnam had stayed in Cambodia for a decade and picked up every last one of the Khmer Rouge, installed and stabilized the friendly government and only left when it was fully capable of defending itself and all China could do was barking and throwing mud from the sideline, inside its border. That's really pathetic! LOL! I agree China was successful with goal number 3 which was to prove to the new gang boss, the US, that it's a treacherous snake that could stab its comrades in the back like promised so it should be allowed to join the gang. Really great achievement though. It takes a very special kind! Only human scum could be able to do that!

Vietnam won? you heard the video above gently say that China achieved a scorched earth policy. Do you know what that means. All of Vietnam's industries were in the north. So China can say destroyed all the industries in Vietnam😂 Including the northern farmland and domestic animals. Haha

@@haochengzhai7156 China had only managed to advance a few tens of kilometers inside Vietnam and stuck in the mountainous area near the border. It was only able to destroy some railroads it built during the Vietnam War and some other small towns and villages of ethnic minorities in the area, maybe some cattle, cats and dogs. That could only show how petty and pathetic China is. There’s nothing else near the border area for China to ‘scorch’. In order to accomplish that, China had lost tens of thousands troops in just three weeks! LOL! China can definitely win any stupid contest! Vietnam’s industrial facilities were all built deep inside Vietnam’s interior. So China can’t destroy any of those. You’re such an ldiot!

​@@haochengzhai7156 the PLA never managed to move pass the few border areas they occupied. They never reached the Red River Delta, which is where most of Northern Vietnam's productions are located. If you think Chinese burning up a couple of rural villages and tearing up some roads as 'destroying' Vietnamese industry then you're delusional 😂

lol，Monkey

Oh yeah? What were THE FRENCH doing there in the first place? Or the Americans, for that matter? 🤣

Or a french puppet or a u.s. puppet

@@smokinhalf They use Chinese lanterns. They us Latin script. They're puppets of everyone.

the chinese never wanted to make them a puppet to begin with, the Chinese wanted the islands, which they certainly got

中国人不想要傀儡，中国只是想保护柬埔寨。当然中国还是很爱越南的。

@@superpowerdragon if China doesn’t want Vietnam to be its puppet , it wouldn’t get so mad when Vietnam refused to be on its side in the Sino-Soviet split. In fact, one of the reasons China stated itself was to ‘teach Vietnam a lesson’ because Vietnam didn’t listen to it. It cannot get any more apparent than that!

What? Alaska is still very much a part of the United States and will stay that way for until the US is no more.

@@oldleatherhandsfriends4053 that is why I said map inaccuracy because in this video it shows that Alaska isn't part of US which is untrue

@@MendAmar 💀the map was prop a very brief one. No need to nitpick too hard

not only scs is china's - whole pacific n half atlantic is china's n usa is on china's soil

@@bobevans9996 Woah! Not so fast! Historically, Vladivostok is on what was part of Manchuria, which the Chinese claim because Manchuria once conquered China. During the Chinese explorer time, their ships went as far as Madagascar, so obviously they have claims to some, if not all, of Africa. They have so much historical injustice to correct before they can get to America!

Pol Pot got into power with the Viets and maybe even the Americans there in the Vietnam War. If your books about him are true then he obviously wasn't industrializing like Mao did.

Let's be for real, it didn't defeat anyone but resisted with great morale as all the country and its citizens do, Vietnam and her citizens did it same. China did it to get USA's approval for becoming a good friend since China was extremely against Soviet Russia and USA did to stop spreading of communism, USA didn't lose either, they also withdraw from the war. The real winner was Deng Xiao Ping aka China.

You, being a person of Indian origin, now must think what your country will do because it seems to be going in similar situations.😂

Hmm no. China is not VN’s family. They’ve invaded us countless times over thousands of years. VN will never accept Chinese rule.

Does not losing mean winning? First of all, you need to understand where the battlefield is and whose losses are greater. Do you think Vietnam also won the US Vietnam War?

@@ALBAHD Definitely. They defeated South Vietnam and unified the country. They have become an ally of sorts to the U.S. against the Chinese and seem to be fond of individual Americans. How sad there had to be a war. Ho Chi Minh believed FDR would support their independence from France and I believe he was right. There would have been no Vietnam War for the United States had FDR lived.

@@genemartinez2833 I don't think Vietnam is the winner in this war. Firstly, many people in Vietnam have lost their lives. Secondly, the battlefield is on the mainland of Vietnam, where Vietnam has suffered immeasurable losses in infrastructure and economy. Thirdly, Vietnam has not received any compensation

No friend, you misunderstood. When the elbow, China and the US government have a good relationship, but the US government can't support it internationally. China wanted to give Vietnam a stern warning, so that at least China can be protected from war within 100 years.

想多了，中国军队现代化。很大程度来自美国的航母

波尔布特纯粹是个畜牲，我们的朋友是胡志明主席和西哈努克亲王！

Exactly .

What you said is probably true. Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union in this war. As the younger brother of the Soviet Union, it was normal for East Germans to appear in Vietnam.

Lol they are still spicy. 😂

In fact, most Chinese have no hatred towards the Vietnamese under the cultural propaganda of this era, but about the nickname, the Vietnamese would be called monkey at that time lol.

白眼狼形容一个忘恩负义的人，会攻击他们的恩人，

@@wangbuhaithế nào là ân nhân? Lũ trung quốc cả ngàn năm nay đã muốn chiếm Việt Nam. Xưa đến nay vẫn không thay đổi. Giặc hán cần phải bị tiêu diệt. Trung quốc đại diện cho sự tham lam, giả dối, nói hai lời

Nonsense, Vietnamese don't get PTSD. We are the world toughest people. My dad was an LT in the Vietnam War. He doesn't have any PTSD compare to American soldiers.

​@@chrisx5127I mean a lot of people have ptsd. What are you talking about ?

​@@chrisx5127 you're either trolling or horribly ignorant of human psychology.

@@chrisx5127 vietnamese people all have nguyen as their surname, so inbreds all don't suffer ptsd because they're... special.

​@@deviousNjust a pompous Vietnamese

FREE CHAMPA! FREE SIKKIM!

@@scintillam_dei Free Manchuria! Free South Mongolia! Free East Turkestan! Free Tibet! Free Kashmir! Free Hong Kong! Free Taiwan!

@@scintillam_dei the Chams is barely enough to run a country these days,and Sikkim is in India.

@@rob6927 Dont free Tibet. They had an empire. What goes around comes around.

@@rob6927 You forgot FREE HAWAII! FREE LAKOTA LANDS!

@Keyboard Emperor If China had really truly wanted to help Cambodia, China would never have helped the bloodthirsty Khmer Rouge regime with the aid of more than 10,000 Chinese military advisors to murder more than 2 million Cambodian people accounting for roughly half of the total Cambodian population at the time. Almost wiping Cambodia off the map, the horrible massacre in Cambodia was well known as Cambodian Genocide-the most brutal massacre in the history of Asia, and that was why the Cambodian Genocide was totally condemned by the United Nations in 2003. According to British BBC report, Andrew Mertha, a professor at Johns Hopkins and Brown universities, US said that 90% of foreign aid received by the Khmer Rouge came from China (Andrew Mertha ─ Brothers in Arms: China's Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979).

@Keyboard Emperor According to world historians, the Kingdom of Funan was a big kingdom in Southeast Asia where now includes Cambodia, southern Thailand, southern Myanmar, southern Laos, and southern Vietnam. The kingdom of Funan originally consisted of small states that had existed for five centuries. However, in the 6th century, the Kingdom of Funan was frequently attacked and invaded by a small foreign state known as Chenla in the north. The people of Chenla subsequently massively migrated to the Kingdom of Funan, illegally occupying most of its fertile lands. Finally, the people of Chenla overthrew Funan Kingdom and founded a new one called Khmer Kingdom known as present-day Cambodia. This clearly historically proved that the Cambodians have no valid reason to reclaim the lands of the Funan Kingdom such as Thailand, southern Myanmar and southern Vietnam because even present-day Cambodia was historically part of the Kingdom of Funan. In other words, present-day Cambodia belonged to Funan people, NOT Khmer people or the Cambodians. The fact that the Cambodians keep publicly claiming the southern Vietnam they had stolen from others, is absolutely ridiculously absurd. It had never been theirs before, why have they kept claiming it belonged to them? Also, it was Outey Reachea II, who became the Khmer King in 1758 after his grandfather Ang Tong's death. The Khmer King Outey Reachea II officially and voluntarily gave the land now known as the southern Vietnam as a gift to the Vietnamese King Nguyen in 1758, in exchange for the protection during the Siamese invasions of Cambodia by the Siamese King Taksin of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (currently Thailand). Furthermore, the French Colonial Empire in Southeast Asia was finally defeated by the Vietnamese in the bloody battle Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, which led to the Geneve Conference in Switzerland in July 1954 discussing about the general election for reunification of the southern and northern Vietnam in July 1956. Cambodia was also invited to find a solution to the situation of the southern Vietnam. Sadly, the Kingdom of Cambodia under Norodom Sihanouk refused to join the Geneve Conference and allowed the French Cochinchina government to be their sole representative at the conference. If the southern Vietnam had been truly part of Cambodia, the Cambodian king would have actively participated in a such important decision about the southern Vietnam! However, Cambodia never ever did. In addition, over 2 million Vietnamese people had fought to defend southern Vietnam and died during one of the bloodiest wars of the last century - the Vietnam War. North and South Vietnam was finally united in 1975. Did the Cambodians or Khmer people in Cambodia stand up fighting to defend the southern Vietnam during the war? NO, they never did. Now, South Vietnam was finally reunited with North Vietnam as one country - one unified nation, and the Cambodians have started claiming southern Vietnam as part of their land! It is completely wrong and baseless for the Cambodians to reclaim the land that had never ever been theirs before because Khmer people had illegally stolen the land originally from the Funan people. In addition, southern Vietnam had been historically an integral part of Vietnam's territory since the French colonial period. Southern Vietnam had been under the full control of the French Cochinchina government-the administration of Jules Brévié as the Governor-General of French Indochina. Thereafter, the sovereignty of Cochinchina was transferred to the State of Vietnam and remained so after the departure of the French. As a result, southern Vietnam is an integral part of Vietnam's territory, historically and legally. If you want to know why the southern Vietnam fully belongs to the Vietnamese, ask the Khmer Kings including Outey Reachea II and Norodom Sihanouk! Nobody can change any events in the past. The fact that the Cambodians have kept groundlessly claiming that the southern Vietnam belonged to them, makes all of the Cambodians look like a bunch of compulsive and pathological liars.

@Keyboard Emperor Personally, I think the Chinese are insanely ignorant and the Cambodians are overwhelmingly unintelligent. Studying the history of a country is the best way to learn about that country and its people. Take China as an example. The Chinese have always considered themselves to be the most powerful and intelligent people in the world, and China to be the center of the universe. However, China's history tells a totally different story. In fact, it has sadly betrayed the Chinese people. Here are the facts! The Mongols according to historians are still regarded as the mightiest, deadliest and most feared military force of all time even though they existed more than 8 centuries ago. In the 13th century, the Mongol army of roughly 100,000 troops were able to wipe out all of the powerful Chinese dynasties and finally successfully conquered the whole China with a population of over 150 million people at the time! However, the unbeatable Mongol army was bitterly defeated not once, not twice but three times by a teeny tiny and insignificant country, which is Vietnam with a population of about over 3 million people in the 13th century! In addition to triumphantly defeating the invincible Mongol army and forever ending Genghis Khan's dream of conquering the entire world, Vietnam had successfully defeated all 7 powerful Chinese dynasties (Qin, Wu, Han, Song, Great Yuan, Ming and Great Qing) through its 5,000-year history and regained its independence and freedom. There must be something about the teeny tiny country that later went on successfully defeating the French in 1954 and boldly handling a humiliating defeat to the US-the most powerful country in the world in 1975. If China was unable to defeat the mighty Mongol army, how could China defeat Vietnam? Just look at China history! All the powerful Chinese dynasties, one after another had been bitterly kicked out of Vietnam by the fearless Vietnamese people for thousands of years, and the latest example was a human wave of over 600,000 Chinese troops totally failing to capture Hanoi in one week during the 1979 conflict and finally withdrawing 3 weeks later. Vietnam is still Vietnam today standing tall. China is big and populous, but still unable to conquer the teeny tiny Vietnam for thousands of years, so what can Cambodia do to Vietnam? Nothing! This is why people said, the Cambodians are overwhelmingly unintelligent, and the Chinese are insanely ignorant. Having repeated the same mistake for thousands of years is just foolishly and ludicrously ignorant.

@Keyboard Emperor "but the historians claimed the Funan people were mostly Khmer in combination of some ethnic minorities. (Funan could be an ancient Chinese transliteration of the Khmer word Phnom, which means moutains in Khmer)"?? You did not read my comment carefully. There were 2 different countries at the time, which were Funan and Chenla. Chenla was Chenla, and Funan was Funan. They were 2 totally different peoples. Some people even said Funan and Chenla were Chinese migrating from China's Changjiang area, but look at the Cambodian skin, which is darker! This solidly proved the theory of migration totally wrong.

@Keyboard Emperor "It definitely wasn't Vietnamese homeland"! It certainly historically wasn't the Cambodians' homeland either. Remember Chenla and Funan were 2 different peoples living on 2 different lands. Thailand, southern Myanmar and southern Vietnam and even present-day Cambodia were originally part of the Kingdom of Funan, which the people of Chenla illegally invaded and occupied, and finally they overthrew Funan Kingdom and founded a new one called Khmer Kingdom known as Cambodia today. In other words, present-day Cambodia belonged to Funan people, NOT Khmer people or the Cambodians. Also, I said clearly in the previous comment, "The Khmer King Outey Reachea II voluntarily gave the land now known as the southern Vietnam as a gift to the Vietnamese King Nguyen in 1758, in exchange for the protection during the Siamese invasions of Cambodia by the Siamese King Taksin of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (currently Thailand)." Furthermore, "in the Geneve Conference in July 1954 discussing about the general election for reunification of the southern and northern Vietnam in July 1956, Cambodia was also invited to find a solution to the situation of the southern Vietnam. Sadly, the Kingdom of Cambodia under Norodom Sihanouk refused to join the Geneve Conference and allowed the French Cochinchina government to be their sole representative at the conference." Moreover, "Southern Vietnam had been under the full control of the French Cochinchina government-the administration of Jules Brévié as the Governor-General of French Indochina. Thereafter, the sovereignty of Cochinchina was transferred to the State of Vietnam and remained so after the departure of the French. As a result, southern Vietnam is an integral part of Vietnam's territory, historically and legally." During the Vietnam War, "over 2 million Vietnamese people had fought to defend southern Vietnam and died during one of the bloodiest wars of the last century - the Vietnam War. North and South Vietnam was finally united in 1975. Did the Cambodians or Khmer people in Cambodia stand up fighting to defend the southern Vietnam during the war? NO, they never did." It had never been theirs before, why have they kept claiming it belonged to them? Claiming what is not theirs, is absolutely ridiculously absurd. Are the Cambodians out of their mind? Or the Cambodians totally forgot the deadly Khmer Rouge regime and the brutal Cambodian Genocide caused by the Chinese-backed Pol Pot dictator with the help of over 10,000 Chinese advisors!

俄罗斯打乌克兰也是这套说辞 他们自己的人民没有力量反抗 所以我们就侵略一下 顺便把地占了 以后公投并入越南 哦不 俄罗斯

那是因为目的达到了，不需要再打了。

There's no dispute, the official Chinese statistics are up, and by 1991, China had lost a total of 33,000 people, and the Vietnamese side had lost 87,000. But your Vietnamese government says Vietnam lost 150,000 people, Vietnam is obviously exaggerating.

​@@CNNandBBCTrung quốc thiệt mạng chính xác là 62.500 binh lính . Đa số người Việt thiệt mạng là thường dân . Đây là tiết lộ của một cựu chiến binh Trung quốc năm 1979 khi ông ông ấy gặp một cựu binh Việt nam .

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Vietnam had resist and expelled China invasion for 2,000 years. Mighty empire such as Han dynasty occupied briefly and retreated, Mongol invasion were repelled and Manchu were defeated in several battles and China communist is No different!!!

@badofi you’re so lame

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The Khmer Rouge were atheist liberators of religitard oppessors! Glad there is no hell, so they won't pay for raping women and their many cold-blooded murders to advance our unoly atheist cause of getting away with evil when we die in our selifsh delusion!

China's main aim was to stop Vietanmese hegemony as it was expanding aggressively following the war with the US, which they achieved an vietnam's influence over indo-china was greatly reduced.

@@janusjones6519 The fact that China keeps changing its ‘main goal’ as time goes by and things unfold (like the US had also done before that) shows it had clearly lost the war. What exactly was ‘Vietnam hegemony’ in Indochina? Pol Pot rose up in the Vietnam War and he was a China’s tool, not Vietnam’s. And China’s stopping ‘Vietnam hegemony’ in Indochina sounds really stupid considering China is THE East Asian hegemon throughout the ages and it teamed up with the global hegemon, the US, to do that too!

@@diehardcat China’s goals didn’t change. Vietnam was well on its way to dominate indochina prior to the war

@@janusjones6519 No you ldiot. How did Vietnam dominate Indochina before the war when Pol Pot, a China’s dog, was still running Cambodia?! And The fact that Pol Pot dared to cross the border to mass murder Vietnamese villagers proved beyond any doubt that neither was Vietnam dominating nor did it want to dominate Indochina! It was a stupid story that doesn’t make any fkg sense, cooked up by China to brainwash stupid people like you and justify it crimes against Vietnam. It obviously just pulled a page or two from the US’ book of ‘blame the victim to justify war of aggression’ here.

@badofi yeah but that’s 10 years acted the war. The Chinese failed its objective

@badofi The objective of Vietnam in Cambodia was to destroy the sicko regime, Khmer Rouge, which ultimately was an ultra nationalist regime and led by Pol Pot, a Chinese tool, and install a friendly government. She successfully did exactly that and China and the US can’t do anything about it! The present Cambodia's prime minister was put there by Vietnam right after she successfully disposed of Pol Pot and he's still there ruling the country. You don't know that? For 10 years after Pol Pot was removed and the Khmer Rouge destroyed, the United Snakes and the treacherous China with some of their lackeys had fought tooth and nail at the UN trying to preserve his seat and gave him all the help they could to wage a guerrilla war against Vietnam to wrestle back control of Cambodia but FAILED. The Khmer Rouge top cadres ultimately ended up as criminals and had to face trials. They are the one who tried to use China as leverage against Vietnam, not the current one. After all the current PM was put up there by Vietnam remember?

I wonder how can anybody call that a ‘tactical victory’ when China lost tens of thousands in just three weeks, like a third or half of what the US did in its ten years in Vietnam. What exactly did they achieve? Successfully destroyed infrastructure they built near the border during the Vietnam War? First, there wasn’t much to destroy to begin with. Second, any lowly terrorist or bandit group can do that without talking that kind of casualties and with barely lifting a finger. So bragging about that can only make China looks petty, lame and stupid!

The war does not take place in Chinese territory, North Vietnam is destroyed, just like the war between Russia and Ukraine today After Vietnam and China finished this war, there were dozens of wars between Vietnam and China. Until 1990, Vietnam failed each time, until the Soviet Union collapsed, Vietnam lost its allies, and Vietnam finally reconciled with China. China has received technology and capital from Western allies, especially the United States, and China's economy has begun to take off, achieving its strategic goals

@@user-kq5pj9py9c If you wanna know who win or lose, you need to look at the whole picture, look at the purposes and compare what each side wants at the beginning and what it actually achieves at the end. First, what China did could hardly be called a 'war'. A real 'war' has a real, important, big objective. China had a very petty objective and scope so a banditry incursion is more like it. China backed and encouraged Pol Pot to attack Vietnam and promised to rescue him if Vietnam responded. That's why Pol Pot was so confident. He thought Vietnam wouldn't dare to do anything to him as long as there was big bad China in the background intimidating her, but he was wrong and got his a$$ kicked all the way to Thailand in just a few weeks. China now had to do something. Although being full of hubris, China also knew that if it tried a real land war with Vietnam, it would get íts a$$ kicked and humiliated again, so it had chosen to limit the scope to 'teaching Vietnam a lesson' by conducting a very short hit and run incursion! LOL! Nobody can get more petty than China!)! It’s not an actual war to rescue Pol Pot like promised. You see, China had lost strategically from the get go by that limited scope. It effectively had decided to cut him loose at that point. It knew full well that Pol Pot couldn't be rescued with a Chinese chicken hit and run incursion, but it had no choice. It’s better him than China! LOL! Despite being very practical to limit the scope to a banditry incursion, meaning making a very quick run into Vietnam, burning something down and run home as fast as possible before Vietnam could mobilize to avoid getting annihilated, China had still managed to lose tens of thousands to Vietnamese local forces in just three weeks. It took years for the US to lose that many men in Vietnam. So tactically speaking, it was a gigantic blunder.

militarily, China clearly lost.

You wish

It’s not giving up, the US and Allies including China sanctions them. The “giving” reason is kinda dumb because North Korea and Tibet are prime examples of what shit hole it can be following China. The Viet paid the price for angering two of the world super power. Nobody want to be starve or poor. The problem is the choice is available for them or not. China came out well allying with the US. The Viet avoided a North Korea situation and also developed rapidly. Both came out better so maybe time for both side stop being such petty asses and move on. I bet Chinese millennia and Vietnamese millennia don’t want to go die in a war again. They should just mind their own business.

@@davidluong8370 bs. Vietnam had their vietnam with occupation 1978-1990 30,000 dead

@@AspieTrips less of a war, more of a massacre. Vietnam destroyed cambodian forces.

tell him to do a vid on usa is on china's soil

You tried really hard. Appreciate your efforts, but it's still stupid of you to say China was defeated and whatever 0-2.... If China was defeated in the battlefield, how could it achieve the political goal?? Your opinion just sounds crazily wrong. In fact, Chinese army went all the way to the capital city of Vietnam, and took a lot of goods back from the local factories on their way back. Just tell me, how was that defeated???????

@Danny Wang your perspective is interesting but the PLA never got more than 20+ miles into Vietnam and never got close to Hanoi. I would agree that many people can have a different perspective as to the outcome of the war but militarily, the PLA did not overcome the NVA. Could I be wrong? Sure? Do i think i am wrong? No. I guess for myself i would disagree with your claim that the PLA reached the outskirts of Hanoi. From what I remember, the PLA never made it that far before withdrawing.

@@dannywang4673 who taught you that PLA reached to Hanoi? He deserves an F- in History, and that was a mercy grade. Welcome to the World Wide Web, where you have to reconsider everything that you were taught in China

@@dannywang4673 and let me summery what actually happened, that PLA failed to advance against Vietnam's people militias, not yet talking about facing the actual VPA. There is no such thing called "went all the way to the capital city of Vietnam", because that's the utter disrespect to fact and history.

@@dannywang4673 : You Chinese always think that you are the ruler of the world. But that's not it. do you know why? Because of delusion and ignorance, you consider your people superior. You don't know anything about the China-Vietnam war 1979 Your country China has more than 1 billion people. But only a bunch of useless people against Mongolia, Japan, Western countries. We Vietnamese people are small, but we are not afraid of any big country and race, including you Chinese, history has proven that statement. If the new generation illusionist like you doesn't believe, come and see. cheap kung fu people

你怕是不知道越南战争期间的河内是解放军防守的吧？你怕是还不知道 是中国人不允许美国人打过17度线吧？

@@user-jx5og4ww6rHanoi? Defend by PLA? That’s why, kid, take social studies class in China with a pinch of salt.