-sufficient industrial base area to serve as a strategic reserve in the event of China being drawn into war. The article describes and …Between 1964 and 1971 China carried out a massive programme of investment in the remote regions of south-western and … western China. This development programme - called the "Third Front" - envisaged the creation of a huge self …

China's Vietnam War (Febr.-March 1979) was launched with a number of purposes in mind: although China wanted to halt … China. In so doing, it wished to demonstrate to the US, with which relations had just been normalized and which its senior … from the lesson, criticized Chinese behavior publicly in Peking, and the Japanese - another political target of China …