Self-defense Counterattack Against Vietnam （3）

Now it is requisite to introduce the historical background of China and Vietnam. Vietnam was divided into two countries after 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu.  Lined by Latitude 17, there were communist North Vietnam and puppet South Vietnam supported by France, Baoda, led by Ngô ?ình Di?m. Since July 1954, China and Vietnam had been in good friendship.  Being allies and both socialist countries, China had offered Vietnam military and economic assistance for over 20 years. Reasonably, connected by mountains and rivers, and with same ideology, the two friendly countries should not have home brothers fighting, or turn against each other since there were no such basis or modern historical background. Faced with such a big country China， Vietnam is very small even if she should have realized its ambition dominating Indochina and Southeast Asia.

The area of Vietnam being smaller than China’s Yunnan province, the total areas of the three countries Vietnam plus Cambodia and Laos just equal Qinghai province of China. After years of war, the three countries were particularly lack of men with reduced population.  The Key point witnessed a very backward economy in Vietnam with thousands of reconstructions waiting to be done after twenty years of war.  The same was it in Cambodia and Laos.

A big country with atom bomb, conventional weapons second to the USSR, 4 million military forces, what threatening and what fear China was feeling while facing such Vietnam’s allies, such Indochina Union, such hegemony-seeking regime?

Decades later, when looking back to the irregular change of Deng Xiao Ping’s political power mutation, it is evident that military power holding the barrel of gun was the crux of Deng’s power coming to peak. The so named Self-defense Counterattack Against Vietnam(SDCAV) is a stepping stone as well as the first step, for Deng Xiao Ping to usurp political power, which also clearly manifest that so called Self-Defense Counterattack Against Vietnam agitated by Deng was Si Ma Zhao's trick (司马昭之心) obviously known to every man in the street. His purpose was to take over military power of the PLA through the way of blooding, sacrificed and paved by thousands of soldiers and officers, which would also result in Chairman of Military Commission Hua Guo Feng’s inferiority and his military leading position shaking as well.