Move over, Coronavirus : we fought a pandemic during the Vietnam War
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How the 1979 China-Vietnam war forever reshaped Asia
Here’s what you need to remember: Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping used the PLA’s demonstrated shortcomings to consolidate political power and begin a modernization effort, downsizing it by over a million personnel to improve its quality. Thus, the Chinese war intended to “teach…
Shocking defeat : how China lost to Vietnam in 1979
Beijing may have lost the war, but it won in the long-run. Here’s how the conflict helped birth painful but necessary military reforms in the PLA.
A stirring family saga tells a taboo history of Vietnam
Halfway through “The Mountains Sing,” the first novel in English by the Vietnamese poet Nguyen Phan Que Mai, a grandmother explains herself to the granddaughter she’s caring for in Hanoi in the early 1970s while American bombs rain around them.
Yes North Korea Sent Jets and Pilots to Fight America in Vietnam
North Korea wanted to assist a fellow communist regime. However, Pyongyang’s pilots and planes weren’t that good.