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The Sino-Vietnamese War (also known by other names) was a brief conflict that occurred in early 1979 between China and Vietnam.^[1]

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Armchair General (magazine)

Armchair General was a bimonthly American military history magazine published by Weider History Group.

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ASEAN

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.

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Asian Survey: A Bimonthly Review of Contemporary Asian Affairs is a bimonthly academic journal of Asian studies published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Đặng Nhật Minh

Đặng Nhật Minh (鄧日明, b. Huế, Vietnam, 1938) is one of Vietnam's foremost film directors.

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Đàm Quang Trung

Đàm Quang Trung (born Đàm Ngọc Lưu) (12 September 1921 – 3 March 1995) was a colonel general in the People's Army of Vietnam, active during the First Indochina War, Vietnam War and Sino-Vietnamese War.

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Baise

Baise (local pronunciation), or Bose, is the westernmost prefecture-level city of Guangxi, China bordering Vietnam as well as the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan.

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Battle of Cao Ba Lanh

The Battle of Cao Ba Lanh (also known as the Battle of Hill 1050) was part of the Battle of Móng Cái, fought during the Sino-Vietnamese War between February and March 1979 near the city of Móng Cái and other districts of Quảng Ninh Province that bordered the People's Republic of China. Sino-Vietnamese War and Battle of Cao Ba Lanh are 1979 in Vietnam.

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Battle of Lạng Sơn (1979)

The Battle of Lạng Sơn was fought during the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War, days after the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) advanced deep into the northern provinces of Vietnam. Sino-Vietnamese War and Battle of Lạng Sơn (1979) are 1979 in China and 1979 in Vietnam.

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Battle of Móng Cái

The Battle of Móng Cái was fought during the Sino-Vietnamese War between 16 February and 10 March 1979 over the city of Móng Cái and other districts of Quảng Ninh Province that bordered the People's Republic of China. Sino-Vietnamese War and Battle of Móng Cái are 1979 in Vietnam.

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Bloodstained Glory

"Blood-stained Glory" (Traditional Chinese: 血染的風采, Simplified Chinese: 血染的风采) is a Chinese patriotic military song written in 1986, originally used to commemorate those who died during the Sino-Vietnamese War.

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Cam Ranh Bay

Cam Ranh Bay (Vịnh Cam Ranh) is a deep-water bay in Vietnam in Khánh Hòa Province.

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Cambodia–Vietnam relations

Cambodia–Vietnam relations take place in the form of bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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Cambodian Civil War

The Cambodian Civil War (សង្គ្រាមស៊ីវិលកម្ពុជា, UNGEGN) was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge, supported by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong) against the government forces of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, after October 1970, the Khmer Republic, which had succeeded the kingdom (both supported by the United States and South Vietnam). Sino-Vietnamese War and Cambodian Civil War are cold War conflicts, Proxy wars and wars involving Vietnam.

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Cambodian People's Party

The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) is a Cambodian political party which has ruled the country since 1979.

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Cambodian–Vietnamese War

The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea, controlled by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Sino-Vietnamese War and Cambodian–Vietnamese War are cold War conflicts, Proxy wars and wars involving Vietnam.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Candle in the Tomb (TV series)

Candle in the Tomb is a 2016 Chinese streaming television series based on the novel Ghost Blows Out the Light.

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Cao Bằng province

Cao Bằng (高平) is a province of the Northeast region of Vietnam.

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Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party

The Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

The chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress is the presiding officer of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC), which is the permanent body of the National People's Congress (NPC), the national legislature of China.

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Chengdu Military Region

The Chengdu Military Region was one of seven military districts and is located in the southwest of the People's Republic of China, covering Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and the Xizang/Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Chief of staff

The title chief of staff (or head of staff) identifies the leader of a complex organization such as the armed forces, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporting staff or a primary aide-de-camp to an important individual, such as a president, or a senior military officer, or leader of a large organization.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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China–Vietnam border

The China–Vietnam border is the international boundary between China and Vietnam, consisting of a 1,297 km (806 mi) terrestrial border stretching from the tripoint with Laos in the west to the Gulf of Tonkin coast in the east, and a maritime border in the Gulf of Tonkin and South China Sea.

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China–Vietnam relations

Relations between Vietnam and China (p, pinyin: Zhōng-Yuè Guān Xì; Quan hệ Việt–Trung) had been extensive for a couple of millennia, with Northern Vietnam especially under heavy Sinosphere influence during historical times.

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Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Chinese economic reform

The Chinese economic reform or Chinese economic miracle, also known domestically as reform and opening-up, refers to a variety of economic reforms termed "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist market economy" in the People's Republic of China (PRC) that began in the late 20th century, after Mao Zedong's death in 1976.

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CNA (nonprofit)

CNA (The Center for Naval Analyses), formerly known as the CNA Corporation, is a federally-funded nonprofit research and analysis organization based in Arlington County, Virginia.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Sino-Vietnamese War and Cold War are 20th-century conflicts.

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Comecon

The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (English abbreviation COMECON, CMEA, CEMA, or CAME) was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of socialist states elsewhere in the world. Sino-Vietnamese War and Comecon are 20th century in Vietnam.

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Communist Party of Vietnam

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is the founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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Corps Commander

Corps Commander, or "Corps Commander: Operational Manoeuvre Group" is a set of micro-armour Miniature wargaming rules designed by Bruce Rea Taylor and Andy Ashton and published in the UK by Tabletop games copyrighted by B. A. Rea Taylor, A. Ashton & Tabletop Games July 1986.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Dai Zhuang language

Dai Zhuang or Thu Lao is a Tai language spoken in Yunnan, China and northern Vietnam.

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Death and state funeral of Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from its establishment in 1949 until his death on 9 September 1976, at the age of 82.

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Democratic Kampuchea

Democratic Kampuchea (renamed from Kampuchea in 1976) was the Cambodian state from 1975 to 1979, under the totalitarian dictatorship of Pol Pot and the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), commonly known as the Khmer Rouge.

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Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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Domino theory

The domino theory is a geopolitical theory which posits that changes in the political structure of one country tend to spread to neighboring countries in a domino effect.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).

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Empire of Vietnam

The Empire of Vietnam (Literary Chinese and Contemporary Japanese: 越南帝國; Modern Japanese: label) was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin between March 11 and August 25, 1945.

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Fall of Saigon

The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.

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Fangcheng District

Fangcheng (postal: Fongshing,; Zhuang language: Fangzcwngz Gih) is a district of the city of Fangchenggang, Guangxi, China.

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First Indochina War

The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 20 July 1954. Sino-Vietnamese War and First Indochina War are 20th century in Vietnam, 20th-century conflicts, cold War conflicts, Indochina Wars, Invasions of Vietnam, Proxy wars, wars involving Vietnam and wars involving the People's Republic of China.

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French Indochina

French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1946 as the French Union, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945), and the Vietnamese regions of Tonkin in the north, Annam in the centre, and Cochinchina in the south. Sino-Vietnamese War and French Indochina are 20th century in Vietnam.

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French Union

The French Union was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system, colloquially known as the "French Empire" (Empire français).

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Friendship Pass

Friendship Pass, also commonly known by its older name Ải Nam Quan, is a pass near the China-Vietnam border, between China's Guangxi and Vietnam's Lạng Sơn Province.

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FULRO insurgency

The United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (Front uni de lutte des races opprimées, abbreviated FULRO) waged a nearly three decade long insurgency against the governments of North and South Vietnam, and later the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Sino-Vietnamese War and FULRO insurgency are cold War conflicts, history of Vietnam (1945–present), wars involving Vietnam and wars involving the People's Republic of China.

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G. D. Bakshi

Major General Gagan Deep Bakshi (born 1950) is a retired Indian Army officer.

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Gang of Four

The Gang of Four was a Maoist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam

The general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (Tổng Bí thư Ban Chấp hành Trung ương Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam), simply and informally the general secretary (TBT), is the current title for the holder of the highest office within the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), being in practice the highest position in the politics of Vietnam.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Gu Hui (general)

Gu Hui (October 1930 – 10 September 2013) was a general (shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

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Guangxi

Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Guangzhou Military Region

The Guangzhou Military Region was from 1955 to 2016 one of the People's Liberation Army PLA Military Regions, located in the south of the People's Republic of China.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Hanoi

Hanoi (Hà Nội) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.

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Heng Samrin

Heng Samrin (ហេង សំរិន; born 25 May 1934) is a Cambodian politician who served as the President of the National Assembly of Cambodia (2006–2023).

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Henry Kissinger

Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

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Historiography

Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.

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Hmong people

The Hmong people (RPA: Hmoob, Nyiakeng Puachue:, Pahawh Hmong) are an indigenous group in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Ho Chi Minh

italic (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) or just Uncle (Bác), and by other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician.

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Hoa people

The Hoa people, also known as Han Vietnamese or Vietnamese Chinese (Vietnamese: Người Hoa, or) are the citizens and nationals of Vietnam of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry.

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Hoàng Văn Hoan

Hoàng Văn Hoan (1905 – 18 May 1991) was a personal friend of Ho Chi Minh, a founding member of the Indochinese Communist Party, and a Politburo member of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1960 to 1976.

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Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace) is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government.

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Hua Guofeng

Hua Guofeng (born Su Zhu; 16 February 1921 – 20 August 2008) was a Chinese politician who served as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and Premier of China.

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Hubei

Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.

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Insurgency in Laos

The insurgency in Laos is a low-intensity conflict between the Laotian government on one side and former members of the Secret Army, Laotian royalists, and rebels from the Hmong and lowland Lao ethnic minorities on the other. Sino-Vietnamese War and insurgency in Laos are 20th-century conflicts, Indochina Wars, Proxy wars and wars involving Vietnam.

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Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina

The Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina, known as, was a Japanese operation that took place on 9 March 1945, towards the end of World War II.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Johnson South Reef skirmish

The Johnson South Reef skirmish took place on 14 March 1988 between military forces of the People's Republic of China and Vietnam, on the Johnson South Reef in the Union Banks region of the Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea. Sino-Vietnamese War and Johnson South Reef skirmish are Indochina Wars.

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Joint Staff Department (China)

The Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission (JSDCMC) is the command organ and the headquarters for the People's Liberation Army (PLA), superseding the former PLA General Staff Department (GSD).

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Kaiyuan, Yunnan

Kaiyuan is a county-level city within the jurisdiction of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southeast of Yunnan province, China.

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Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953. Sino-Vietnamese War and Korean War are cold War conflicts, Proxy wars and wars involving the People's Republic of China.

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Kunming

Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China.

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Kunming Military Region

The Kunming Military Region was a military region of the People's Liberation Army, established in December 1954 or 1955 and disestablished during the 1980s.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.

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Lai Châu

Lai Châu is a city in the Northwest region of Vietnam.

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Lai Châu province

Lai Châu is a mountainous province in the Northwest region of Vietnam.

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Laos

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.

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Lạng Sơn province

Lạng Sơn (諒山) is a province in northern Vietnam.

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Lào Cai province

Lào Cai is a province of the mountainous Northwest region of Vietnam bordering the province of Yunnan in China.

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Lê Duẩn

Lê Duẩn (7 April 1907 – 10 July 1986) was a Vietnamese communist politician.

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Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party from 1954 to 1992.

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Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.

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Li Jiulong

Li Jiulong (March 1929 – 19 November 2003) was a general (shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

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Li Xinliang

Li Xinliang (born November 1936) is a general (shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

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List of wars involving the People's Republic of China

This is a list of wars involving the People's Republic of China (PRC). Sino-Vietnamese War and list of wars involving the People's Republic of China are wars involving the People's Republic of China.

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List of wars involving Vietnam

This is a list of wars involving the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its predecessor states. Sino-Vietnamese War and list of wars involving Vietnam are wars involving Vietnam.

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Liu Zhijian

Liu Zhijian (1912 – March 11, 2006) was a People's Liberation Army lieutenant general.

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Lon Nol

Marshal Lon Nol (លន់ នល់, also លន់ ណុល; 13 November 1913 – 17 November 1985) was a Cambodian politician and general who served as Prime Minister of Cambodia twice (1966–67; 1969–71), as well as serving repeatedly as defence minister and provincial governor.

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Maguan County

Maguan County (Mã Quan) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, bordering Vietnam's Lào Cai and Ha Giang provinces to the south.

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Mainland Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.

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Malipo County

Malipo County (Ma Lật Pha) is under the administration of the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the southeast of Yunnan province, China, bordering Ha Giang Province to the southeast.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Maoism

Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China.

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Marxism–Leninism

Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution.

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Minister of Defence (Vietnam)

The Minister of National Defence (Defence Minister) is the Government of Vietnam member in charge of the Ministry of National Defence.

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Ministry of National Defense (China)

The Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China, or the "National Defense Ministry" for short, is the second-ranked constituent department under the State Council.

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Modernization of the People's Liberation Army

The military modernization program of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) which began in the late 1970s had three major focuses.

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Mongolian People's Republic

The Mongolian People's Republic (MPR; Бүгд НайрамдахМонгол Ард Улс, БНМАУ) was a socialist state that existed from 1924 to 1992, located in the historical region of Outer Mongolia under the Qing dynasty.

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Nanning

Nanning is the capital and largest city by population of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China.

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Nhân Dân

Nhân Dân (People) is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

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Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.

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Norodom Sihanouk

Norodom Sihanouk (31 October 192215 October 2012) was a member of the Cambodian royal house who led the country as King and Prime Minister.

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North Vietnam

North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa; chữ Nôm: 越南民主共和), was a socialist state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1945 to 1976, with formal sovereignty being fully recognized in 1954. Sino-Vietnamese War and North Vietnam are Indochina Wars.

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Northeast (Vietnam)

Đông Bắc (literally "Northeast" from) is the region to the north of the Red River Delta in Vietnam, bordering China.

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Northwest (Vietnam)

Tây Bắc (literally "Northwest") is one of the regions of Vietnam, located in the mountainous northwestern part of the country.

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On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences

On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences («О культе личности и его последствиях», «O kul'te lichnosti i yego posledstviyakh»), popularly known as the Secret Speech (секретный доклад Хрущёва), was a report by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, made to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956.

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Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War

Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1965 against the escalating role of the United States in the Vietnam War.

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Pacific Fleet (Russia)

The Pacific Fleet (Tikhookeansky flot) is the Russian Navy fleet in the Pacific Ocean.

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Paramount leader

Paramount leader is an informal term for the most important political figure in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Paris Peace Accords

The Paris Peace Accords, officially the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam, was a peace agreement signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.

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Peaceful coexistence

Peaceful coexistence (translit) was a theory, developed and applied by the Soviet Union at various points during the Cold War in the context of primarily Marxist–Leninist foreign policy and adopted by Soviet-allied socialist states, according to which the Socialist Bloc could peacefully coexist with the capitalist bloc (i.e., U.S.-allied states).

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Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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People's Army of Vietnam

The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), officially the Vietnam People's Army (VPA; of Vietnam), also recognized as the Vietnamese Army (lit) or the People's Army (Quân đội Nhân dân), is the national military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the armed wing of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

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People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China.

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People's Republic of Kampuchea

The People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) was a partially recognised state in Southeast Asia which existed from 1979 to 1989. Sino-Vietnamese War and People's Republic of Kampuchea are wars involving Vietnam.

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Phạm Tuyên

Phạm Tuyên (born January 12, 1930, in Hải Dương) is a Vietnamese musician.

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Phù Lá people

The Pula or Phù Lá are an ethnic group of Vietnam and China.

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Pol Pot

Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979.

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Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party

The Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the highest political body of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Political commissar

In the military, a political commissar or political officer (or politruk, a portmanteau word from politicheskiy rukovoditel; or political instructor) is a supervisory officer responsible for the political education (ideology) and organization of the unit to which they are assigned, with the intention of ensuring political control of the military.

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Premier of China

The premier of China, officially titled the premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, is the head of government of China and leader of the State Council.

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President of Vietnam

The president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (lit) or simplier the state president is the head of state of Vietnam, elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam from its delegates.

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Protectorate

A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.

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Puppet state

A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside power and subject to its orders.

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Quảng Ninh province

Quảng Ninh or Quangninh is a province along the northeastern coast of Vietnam.

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Red River Delta

The Red River Delta or Hong River Delta (Châu thổ sông Hồng) is the flat low-lying plain formed by the Red River and its distributaries merging with the Thái Bình River in northern Vietnam.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Robert A. Scalapino

Robert Anthony Scalapino (October 19, 1919 – November 1, 2011) was an American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies.

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Russia–Vietnam relations

Russia–Vietnam relations (Rossiysko-v'yetnamskiye otnosheniya, Quan hệ Nga – Việt) date back formally to 30 January 1950, when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established an embassy to North Vietnam.

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Sa Pa

Sa Pa (also written as Sapa) is a district-level town of Lào Cai Province in the Northwest region of Vietnam.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Sino-Soviet border conflict

The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared military conflict between the Soviet Union and China in 1969, following the Sino-Soviet split. Sino-Vietnamese War and Sino-Soviet border conflict are wars involving the People's Republic of China.

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Sino-Soviet relations

Sino-Soviet relations (советско-китайские отношения, sovetsko-kitayskiye otnosheniya), or China–Soviet Union relations, refers to the diplomatic relationship between China (both the Chinese Republic of 1912–1949 and its successor, the People's Republic of China) and the various forms of Soviet Power which emerged from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to 1991, when the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

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Sino-Soviet split

The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. Sino-Vietnamese War and Sino-Soviet split are 20th-century conflicts.

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Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance

The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance (Russian: Советско-китайский договор о дружбе, союзе и взаимной помощи), or Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance for short, was a bilateral treaty of alliance, collective security, aid and cooperation concluded between the People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on February 14, 1950.

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Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991)

The Sino-Vietnamese conflicts of 1979–1991 were a series of border and naval clashes between the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam following the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979. Sino-Vietnamese War and Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991) are 1979 in China, 1979 in Vietnam, 20th century in Vietnam, history of Vietnam (1945–present), Indochina Wars, wars between China and Vietnam, wars involving Vietnam and wars involving the People's Republic of China.

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Son Sann

Son Sann (សឺន សាន, Sœn San; 5 October 191119 December 2000) was a Cambodian politician and anti-communist resistance leader who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Cambodia (1967–68) and later as President of the National Assembly (1993).

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South Sea Fleet

The Southern Theater Command Navy (STCN), or the South Sea Fleet (SSF) until 2018, is a formation of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and the naval component of the Southern Theater Command.

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South Vietnam

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters. Sino-Vietnamese War and Soviet–Afghan War are cold War conflicts and Proxy wars.

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Spratly Islands

The Spratly Islands (Kapuluan ng Kalayaan; Mandarin p; Kepulauan Spratly; Quần đảo Trường Sa) are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea.

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Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.

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Status quo ante bellum

The term status quo ante bellum is a Latin phrase meaning "the situation as it existed before the war".

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Suisheng Zhao

Suisheng Zhao (born September 17, 1954) is a professor of Chinese politics and foreign policy at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies.

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Sun Ganqing

Sun Ganqing (19 January 1919 – 5 January 2019) was a major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

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Tôn Đức Thắng

Tôn Đức Thắng (August 20, 1888 – March 30, 1980) was the second president of Vietnam under the leadership of General Secretary Lê Duẩn.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.

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The Big Parade (1986 film)

The Big Parade is a 1986 Chinese film directed by Chen Kaige.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Third Indochina War

The Third Indochina War was a series of interconnected armed conflicts, mainly among the various communist factions over strategic influence in Indochina after Communist victory in South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in 1975. Sino-Vietnamese War and Third Indochina War are 20th-century conflicts, cold War conflicts, Indochina Wars, wars involving Vietnam and wars involving the People's Republic of China.

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Timeline of World War II (1945–1991)

This is a timeline of the events that stretched over the period of late World War II, its conclusion, legal aftermath, with the inclusion of the Cold War, from January 1945 to December 1991.

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Type 59 tank

The Type 59 (industrial designation: WZ-120) main battle tank is a Chinese-produced version of the Soviet T-54A tank, an early model of the ubiquitous T-54/55 series.

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Type 62 light tank

The Norinco Type 62 is a Chinese light tank developed in the early 1960s, based on the Chinese Type 59 with a reduced main gun calibre, lighter armour and a smaller suite of electronics and other equipment to help reduce weight.

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Type 63 (tank)

The Norinco Type 63 is a Chinese amphibious light tank.

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United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races

The United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races (FULRO; Front unifié de lutte des races opprimées, Mặt trận Thống nhất Đấu tranh của các Sắc tộc bị Áp bức) was an organization whose objective was autonomy for various indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in South Vietnam, including the Montagnards in the Central Highlands, the Chams in Central Vietnam, and the Khmer Krom in Southern Vietnam.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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Urban warfare

Urban warfare is warfare in urban areas such as towns and cities.

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Võ Nguyên Giáp

Võ Nguyên Giáp (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a general of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), communist revolutionary and politician.

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Văn Tiến Dũng

Văn Tiến Dũng (2 May 1917 – 17 March 2002) was a Vietnamese general in the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), PAVN chief of staff (1954–74); PAVN commander in chief (1974–80); member of the Central Military–Party Committee (CMPC) (1984–86) and Socialist Republic of Vietnam defense minister (1980–87).

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Vũ Lập

Vũ Lập (born Nông Văn Phách) (1924–1987) was a colonel general in the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) active during Laotian Civil War and all three Indochina Wars.

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Vichy France

Vichy France (Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.

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Viet Cong

The Viet Cong was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.

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Viet Minh

The Việt Minh (abbreviated from Việt Nam Độc lập Đồng minh, 越南獨立同盟; Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam) was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1941.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

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Vietnam News Agency

Vietnam News Agency (VNA; Thông tấn xã Việt Nam (TTXVN), (AVI)) is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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Vietnam People's Air Force

The Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF; Không quân nhân dân Việt Nam (KQNDVN)), officially the Air Defence - Air Force Service (ADAF Service) or the Vietnam Air Force (Không quân Việt Nam (KQVN)), is the aerial and space service branch of Vietnam.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Sino-Vietnamese War and Vietnam War are 20th century in Vietnam, cold War conflicts, history of Vietnam (1945–present), Indochina Wars, Proxy wars, wars involving Vietnam and wars involving the People's Republic of China.

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Vietnamization

Vietnamization was a failed policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".

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Western world

The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Sino-Vietnamese War and World War I are 20th-century conflicts.

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Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain is a 1984 Chinese film about the life of the soldiers in a PLA army company before, during and after the Sino-Vietnamese War.

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Wu Xiuquan

Wu Xiuquan (6 March 1908 – 9 November 1997) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, military officer, and diplomat.

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Xie Jin

Xie Jin (21 November 1923 – 18 October 2008) was a Chinese film director.

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Xing Shizhong

Xing Shizhong (September 1938 – 11 March 2019) was a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.

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Xu Shiyou

Xu Shiyou (1906–October 22 1985) was a general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

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Xu Xiangqian

Xu Xiangqian (November 8, 1901 – September 21, 1990) was a Marshal of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Yang Dezhi

Yang Dezhi (January 13, 1911 – October 25, 1994) was a Chinese general and politician.

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Ye Jianying

Ye Jianying (28 April 1897 – 22 October 1986) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary leader and politician, one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China.

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Yinxi

Yinxi, formerly romanized as Yin-hsi, was a legendary figure of Zhou China.

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Youth (2017 film)

Youth is a 2017 Chinese coming-of-age drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and written by Geling Yan.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.

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Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński (March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), known as Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist.

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Zhang Jinghua

Zhang Jinghua (born July 1962) is a former Chinese politician who served as Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Nanjing from 2017 to 2021.

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Zhang Wannian

Zhang Wannian (1 August 1928 – 14 January 2015) was a general of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China.

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Zhang Zhixin

Zhang Zhixin (5 December 1930 – 4 April 1975) was a dissident during the Cultural Revolution who became famous for criticizing the idolization of Mao Zedong and the ultra-left.

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11th Corps (People's Republic of China)

The 11th Corps (later the 11th Army Corps) was a military formation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

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11th Garrison Division of Shenyang Military Region

The 150th Division (2nd Formation), then 11th Garrison Division of Shenyang Military Region was a military formation of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.

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122nd Division (People's Republic of China)

The 122nd Division was created in November 1948 under the Regulation of the Redesignations of All Organizations and Units of the Army, issued by Central Military Commission on November 1, 1948, basing on the 11th Division, 4th Column of PLA Fourth Field Army.

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124th Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Division (People's Republic of China)

The 124th Division was a division of the PRC People's Liberation Army.

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126th Armed Police Mobile Division (People's Republic of China)

The 126th Division was a division deployed by the People's Republic of China.

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127th Combined Arms Brigade (People's Republic of China)

The 127th Combined Arms Brigade is the primary maneuver element of the 82nd Group Army in the Central Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and is its sole infantry division as of present.

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129th Division (People's Republic of China)

The 125th Division was a division deployed by the People's Republic of China during the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War.

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148th Division (People's Republic of China)

The 148th Division was a military formation of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.

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14th Army (People's Republic of China)

The 14th Army was an army level formation of the People's Liberation Army.

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160th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)

The 130th Army Division, now the 160th Heavy Combined Arms Brigade was a military formation of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force of the People's Republic of China.

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162nd Motorized Infantry Division (People's Republic of China)

The 135th Division was created in November 1948 under the Regulation of the Redesignations of All Organizations and Units of the Army, issued by Central Military Commission on November 1, 1948, basing on the 24th Division, 8th Column of the Northeastern Field Army.

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164th Marine Brigade

The 145th Division was created in November 1948 under the Regulation of the Redesignations of All Organizations and Units of the Army, issued by Central Military Commission on November 1, 1948, basing on the 34th Division, 12th Column of the PLA Northeastern Field Army.

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165th Division (People's Republic of China)

The 165th Army Division(3rd Formation) was activated in January 1970 in Longchuan, Guangdong province.

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1954 Geneva Conference

The Geneva Conference was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War and involved several nations.

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1955 State of Vietnam referendum

The 1955 State of Vietnam referendum determined the future form of government of the State of Vietnam, the nation that was to become the Republic of Vietnam (widely known as South Vietnam).

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1975 spring offensive

The 1975 spring offensive (chiến dịch mùa Xuân 1975), officially known as the general offensive and uprising of spring 1975 (Tổng tiến công và nổi dậy mùa Xuân 1975), was the final North Vietnamese campaign in the Vietnam War that led to the capitulation of Republic of Vietnam.

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1st Garrison Division of Chengdu Military Region

The Independent Division of Yunnan Provincial Military District(2nd Formation) was created on 5 May 1979 basing on the May Seventh Cadre School of Kunming Military Region as a result of Sino-Vietnamese War earlier that year.

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1st Garrison Division of Guangzhou Military Region

The 2nd Independent Division of Guangxi Military District() was formed in August 1966 from Public Security Contingent of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

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1st Military Region (Vietnam People's Army)

1st Military Region of Vietnam People's Army, founded in 1945, is directly under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam, tasked to organise, build, manage and command fights against foreign invaders to protect the North East of Vietnam.

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20th Group Army

The 20th Group Army is a military formation of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force, stationed in the Jinan Military Region.

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2nd Military Region (Vietnam People's Army)

The 2nd Military Region of the Vietnam People's Army, is directly under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam, tasked to organise, build, manage and commander armed forces defending the North West of Vietnam.

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316th Division (Vietnam)

The 316th Division or Bông Lau Division (Vietnamese: Sư đoàn Bông Lau, literally: Silvergrass Division) was a division of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).

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3rd Division (Vietnam)

The 3rd Infantry Division also known as the Yellow Star Division is a division of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), first formed from Viet Cong (VC) and PAVN units in September 1965.

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50th Army (People's Republic of China)

The 50th Army was a military formation of the People's Liberation Army.

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52nd Mountain Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China)

The 52nd Army Division, which consists of the 52nd Mountain Motorized Infantry Brigade and the 52nd Mountain Combined Arms Brigade, was originally the 149th Division.

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58th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (China)

The 58th Medium Combined Arms Brigade is a brigade of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force.

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83rd Group Army

The 83rd Group Army, Unit 31679, formerly the 54th Group Army, is a military formation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Ground Forces (PLAGF).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

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