Tretiak, Daniel - In: The China quarterly : an international journal for the … (1979) 80, pp. 740-767
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 …
