China's Vietnam War (Febr.-March 1979) was launched with a number of purposes in mind: although China wanted to halt …'s actions - were critical of China's behavior against Vietnam. The USSR had shown a determination to support Vietnam if needed … China. In so doing, it wished to demonstrate to the US, with which relations had just been normalized and which its senior …

The goal of the Chinese government is to make China an efficient, modern economy by the end of this century; however, a …

incentives. Fast expansion of China's foreign trade in the 1970s after the slow and fluctuating growth of the 1950s and 1960s …

, China embarked on a major economic reform programme aimed largely at correcting problems caused by central planning. While …