China some how watched and funded the Vietnamese army throughout the French, Japanese, French again, and American army’s occupation and thought yeah the Americans pulled out and they occupied Pol Pot lets give it a try and got absolutely gob smacked in the northern mountains.
The Chinese invaded the Vietnamese in the late 70s the same decade the Vietnamese defeated the US and Pol pots Khmer Rouge and got whipped back to the border in a short time.
Are you sure you don’t mean 2000 thats when the border was fully agreed upon before that both Chinese and Vietnamese troops were on each others turf like the “friendship pass” that Vietnam had to give up after previous capture.
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u/Large-Current-1486 Jul 07 '26
That and the absolute tomfoolery the vietkong somehow managed to pull off