Comments by "People Liberator" (@lvjinbin28) on "How to avoid war with China | Vivek Ramaswamy and Lex Fridman" video.
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The CCP lost? Then why did the Vietcong withdraw from Cambodia and Laos? Why did the Soviet Union withdraw from Afghanistan and then disintegrate?
What about the Vietnamese dream of a French Indochina Federation? The Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-1991 lasted 12 years, not just 28 days! It was part of the Third Indochina War 1978-1991, and part of the Sino-US cooperation to contain the Soviet Union in Vietnam and Afghanistan!
the Soviet Union, communist Vietnam and communist Afghanistan signed an alliance in 1978. Le Duan adopted a pro-Soviet and anti-Chinese policy, expelling the Chinese and causing the boat people refugee crisis. The Viet Cong retaliated by invading the anti-Vietnamese and pro-China Khmer Rouge, and then occupied Cambodia and Laos.
Then Deng Xiaoping launched the "de-industrialization operation", demolishing all the industries that Mao Zedong had aided Ho Chi Minh in northern Vietnam, then withdrew his PLA troops back to China, because Deng Xiaoping did not want to be trapped by own style Communist People's War himself like France and Americans, and because the CCP needed to guard Chinese northern border against the Soviet army stationed in Mongolia if invading Beijing. Then there were 12 years of continuous border bombardment, because the Viet Cong lost its war industry, so Le Duan was completely dependent on Soviet financial and military aid.
Deng Xiaoping also aided the Khmer Rouge and Sihanoukville guerrillas who fled to Thailand, while the United States and ASEAN aided the anti-communist and anti-Vietnamese Son San guerrillas, the CCP and the United States were both aiding the anti-Soviet Afghan mujahideen. Like Reagan provided Stinger missiles, and Deng Xiaoping provided millions of Type 56 rifles.
The United States didn't know why Americans spent so much money but lost the Vietnam War, but could win the Cold War so easily? Because the CCP and the Soviet Union weakened the United States in the Korean War, the First Indochina War, and the Vietnam War, then the CCP and the United States jointly encircled the Soviet Union in the Third Indochina War and the Soviet-Afghan War.
What did the CCP gain by joining the United States to contain the Soviet Union?
1. Geostrategically, by weakening the Soviet Union and Vietnam, Deng Xiaoping broke the Soviet Union's anti-China encirclement in Mongolia, Manchuria, Afghanistan, India, and Vietnam.
2. After the disintegration of the anti-communist SEATO, the anti-communist ASEAN became pro-CCP, so Indochina could not form a pro-US or pro-Soviet regional hegemony against China.
3. The capitalist camp lifted the 30-year economic sanctions on the PRC since the Korean War, and Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan invested in Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up in 1978.
What did the CCP lose? Because the CCP prevented the Vietcong's dream of a superpower, causing the Vietnamese to hate the Chinese more than the Americans who killed more Vietnamese, so China lost a blood alliance Vietnam, but got a blood alliance Cambodia,
Even Vietnam won't be pro-CCP, but Vietnam would not be an enemy, because Vietnam had learned neutrality from the three Indochina Wars. Pro-French, pro-American, and pro-Soviet would all be retaliated by the CCP.
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CCP has fought against the Japanese Empire, the Republic of China, the United Nations Command, India, the Soviet Union, South Vietnam, and Vietnam, so it is wrong to say that the PLA has no combat experience, but you can say that the PLA has no modern combat experience.
Because after the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia stopped containing the PRC, so China stopped intervening in any war or proxy war for 30 years. The CCP was afraid that it would become the next Soviet Union, so the CCP focused on developing the economy, people's livelihood, and technology. The PLA was very restrained in military actions. On the other hand, in these 30 years, the United States invaded Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, while Russia invaded Georgia, intervened in Syria, and invaded Ukraine, while China just stays neutral, This is why China has achieved an average annual GDP growth of 9.5% for 30 years.
Therefore, China will not feel ashamed of having no combat experience, because it is worth it for economic development. Moreover, the combat experience of the PLA today comes from live-fire training, while the combat experience of the United States comes from bombing herders who cannot fight back. What is the use of this kind of combat experience in global warfare? Can the combat experience of fighting Afghanistan be used to fight Russia China? It would be harmful for Mike Tyson if he continued to defeat enemies of Justin Bieber's level.
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