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 Vietnamese provocation on its border, it viewed its actions in global, strategic terms. It wanted to demonstrate to a hesitant US the limits to which a Soviet-backed client-state...