From: mece2az@rosie.uh.edu (Sun, Xiaohua)
Subject: Re: 79 war against Vietnam (Re: No Dogs or Chinese)
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 02:34:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.192236.1@cc.utah.edu>, danjiong@cc.utah.edu writes...
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>The ultimate goals of 79's invasion, from my understanding, were 
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>     1). to punish Vietnam's betrayal behavior ( sided with Russian) 
> 
>     2). to prevent the falling of Pol Pot's regime, the bloodiest
>     government in the modern history (German only killed Jews
>     and other nationalities. But Pol Pot genocide almost one third
>     of his own people, an estimate of one million within four years.)
> 
>     Of the result, Whether PLA should claim a victory or not, I do
>not know. Definitely the war was not justified.  
> 
>     One justification of the action  CCP gave to its people at the
>time was that Vietnam was purging Chinese.  The truth is that
>Vietnam Cong was copying the CCP's socialism reform of the early
>50's. That is, equalizing the social wealth among all the classes. In
>consequence, many  Chinese, assumably relatively rich, had to fled
>from the liquidations. Our own socialism reform claimed millions of
>lives (in 3 fan 5 fan), why should Chinese government cared about
>Vietnam's action to wipe out the bad elements ?  In addition, as
>pointed out by one netter, Our people's government did not even
>bother to say one word about Cambodia's killings of their Chinese. 
> 
>     Remember, Vietcong only wanted these guys' assets, Pol Pot
>also wanted their lives.  
> 
>     Therefore, That was a war about the Face. 
> 
>     Did the action accomplish its goal ? I doubted. The war did not
>bring our friend+brother back from Russian, nor did the war even
>slow down Vietnam's pace of occupying Cambodia. Yes, we did have
>a big victory.  A 100,000 plus troops, jointed by two military regions,
>had advanced deeply into Vietnam about 20 some miles. Our Iron
>Great Wall had killed most of the encountered Vietnam boarder
>militia and defeated the only regular military division Vietnam dare to
>( or bother to ) send in the front ( in the so called LiangShan Zhanyi). 
> On the top of all that, we have blown up all the  factories, schools,
>farms, mines, rails, houses, whatever we could find in that 20 some
>miles region. As put forward by our PLA hero's in his national tour to
>bluff the victory: " Any construction that is one meter above the
>ground has been eliminated. That is our punishment to the little Ba". 
>I was thrilled with joys when I read and heard of all these ( From the
>Big Reference News, which was circulated within CCP), Well, I was
>only a teenager then and did not fully understanding meaning of
>"disgrace of human race".  
> 
>  It is understandable that SCCers like to enjoy the image of a strong
>China, with an almighty PLA, stands up on the top of the world. But
>reality is the reality. Here is another related issue:
> 
>    It has been a puzzle to Chinese why our dear PLA did not utilize
>the air force and navy to help the foot soldiers to ease the tension in
>those hostile hills. Some have rationalized the reason with the threat
>of Russians. That is not true, or at least is not the whole picture.
>During the 17 days fight, Russian's military even did not put on the
>alert. ( One HongKong newspaper man at the time falsely reported
>that the Russian had put its force on the alert. He later apologized to
>the public. There is no evident, at least that I aware of, indicates that
>Russian would interfere the confrontation. It actually was US who gave
>"go-ahead" and ensured CCP that Russian was not about to move).   
> 
>   
>   The major reason, that PLA grounded its air force and harbored its
>ships, is that those planes (F-19s, F-17s)  and ships are heavily
>outdated comparing  Vietnam's Anti-Air/Sea Defense system.
>Especially from the perspective of an electronic  warfare.  Those big
>boys in Beijing were smart enough to avoid a  duck-shooting type
>game. Even that means a saving of thousands of lives of our "new
>generation of dearest men" 
> 
>  Well, what's else could I say ? I do love the legacy of CCP. I am
>grown up with the books such as  " The Red Flag Is Waving" (15 vols.)
>and " XinHue LiaoYuan" (6 vols.) I am deeply fond of their heroic
>deed. They are trying to establish a new world by the mean of
>destruction. But, along the way of fighting against evil, they converted
>themselves as evils. Clearly, the 79 War against Vietnam demonstrates 
>their sickness.       That,  is sad.
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