• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    China didn’t have a president during the 1979 invasion of Vietnam. The office was unoccupied between 1975 and 1982.

    I guess a better image would show how China often doesn’t care about who they sell guns and equipment to. They’ve armed both sides of the Kashmir conflict and have sold guns to Israel for decades. Not great. But they haven’t had any formal military conflicts other than occasional intelligence gathering/trading since the 1970s.

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      China didn’t have a president during the 1979 invasion of Vietnam. The office was unoccupied between 1975 and 1982.

      The PLA didn’t fully pull out of Vietnam until the 90s

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      China didn’t have a president during the 1979 invasion of Vietnam

      Yeah but Deng was running the show so the L is his, he was the one who contacted Jimmy Carter to tell him he was gonna do it too, Carter advised him not to but said the US wouldn’t raise a stink.

      I remember reading how he made it so the position he occupied had a bunch of powers concentrated in it so that he was for all intents and purposes the leader of the CPC.