Self-defense Counterattack Against Vietnam SDCAV (4)
Another unfavorable result of the War of SDCAV was that Thailand, Burma and many Southeast Asian small countries around, would begin to perceive China with eyes of distrust and vigilance。 Different from 1962 Counterattack Against India, or Counterattack Against the USSR, which were two big countries that first provoked China and occupied obviously China’s territory, Vietnam was a small country. Condemning sternly their proactive behaviors, China was then righteous and reasonable to have taught the two big countries lessons.
The area of Vietnam being small, only one thirtieth of China, its military forces and equipment being unequal to China, and the most important being that Vietnam did not long time take up China’s land., it was unreasonable and vexatious for China to gain an advantage over Vietnam using military power first.
Deeming that the United Nation should take responsibility to resolve the conflict between Vietnam and Cambodia, therefore, it was not strange many small counties would share the same viewpoint: by virtue of big power：(China) bullying the small and weak.
Before the SDCAV war started， Deng Xiao Ping made a bet saying that the USSR would not attack China. He was being right. The second day after war initiated the USSR government only issued a perfunctory statement condemning China’s “sinful “attack. For its military action, only a special mixed fleet was sent to South China sea and strengthened air patrol on Sino-Soviet borders.
Mentioning strategy of the USSR, most of the military enthusiasts could understand: As a big country in Europe that founded in 1917, decades of her history has demonstrated that the USSR’s population momentum and stresses of politics and economy were developing around the axis of the west part, or European part. Even in the WWII, faced with Japan’s hostile glaring, the USSR mostly kept this strategy, unwilling to extend war risk in the East since there were scarce population, little financial resources, and backward transportation. On the other hand, in the East it was hard and uneasy to transport and mobilize troops, and it was as well knotty to deliver military equipment. Contrary to this Soviet predicament the military and economy in the Northeast of China, there were comparatively developed economy and healthy military transfers, especially it was paled in comparison to China’s prosper population.
