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I don't knowDid China have a mutual defense treaty with North Korea when they crossed the Yalu?
And the vast majority of modern history ignores the fact that the Vietnam war was a result of the Viet Mihn defending French Indo-China from France trying to take back their former colony after WWII.Not just communist aligned nations had personnel in North Vietnam, but French and Japanese nationals were present, I've heard of a few from Ireland too..
Doctors, sanitation engineers, agriculture experts, etc.
Doctors Without Borders wasn't formed till the early 70s, but there were plenty of people, or small organizations, performing a similar service before that.
A lot of the rest of the world didn't have the same viewpoint of the war as the US government.
We saw it as protecting South Vietnam from North Vietnam's aggression.
A lot of the rest of the world saw it as the US trying to impose it's will on one side of a civil war.
One would think that you would have researched that before putting forth your theory that the lack of a mutual defense treaty between North Vietnam and China meant China would not enter the Vietnam war in a more active posture.I don't know
I didn't really give it much thought, I figured the Chinese did have such an agreement in place since the hordes plowed across the border by the hundreds of thousands.One would think that you would have researched that before putting forth your theory that the lack of a mutual defense treaty between North Vietnam and China meant China would not enter the Vietnam war in a more active posture.
Another Korean War scenario, except the Chinese had nuclear weapons this time. I'm not sure how big these weapons were in scale (our early weapons were around 8900 - 10,300 pounds) and what aircraft were intended to deliver them at first (Tu-95 seems like an obvious candidate).There is new evidence from China that suggests that Mao was seriously prepared to intervene.
When you say "not allow", I assume that means they'd do anything they could if the bombs started to hit Hanoi...There was a secret agreement between Hanoi and Beijing that if the Americans launched a ground invasion of North Vietnam (at that time, the United States had restricted itself to a bombing campaign), China would send ground troops into North Vietnam and would not allow the United States to defeat Hanoi.
This kind of came out of the recesses of my memory from years ago -- he seemed pretty gung-ho about nuclear war.In China, Mao was making preparations in anticipation of war with the United States. He relocated industries, universities, and research institutions in the coastal areas of eastern China to the mountainous areas of southwest China. He ordered his people to build anti-air shelters throughout China.
Is this why things reached such an extreme level of hostility?At that time Mao was criticizing the Soviet Union for not giving enough support to national liberation movements, for pursuing détente with the United States. Thus he hoped to use the Vietnam War as a way to embarrass Khrushchev.
Yikes...Not new, this from 1995. Skip down to pg 5. where, in 1965, China told North Vietnam they would come to its aid and how they would co-ordinate operations
I thought Diem's death was caused from within? If the CIA did play a role, then it seems they went outside Kennedy's orders. It's not a surprise admittedly...the CIA aided a group of ARVN officers to overthrow and kill Diem
The weapon was a tower-test, but the first nuke was based on the tower-test article in May 1965. The aircraft that dropped it was a Hong-6 (H-6?) which was a Tu-16 clone.tyrodtom said:The Chinese tested their first nuke in late 64.
What's more a question is how quickly could they crank them out...How long it took for them to make them into a form that could be used as a weapon, I don't know.
When did the US realize the USSR & China were negatively relating with each other? Did the President of the US know this? Would the USSR have come to PRC's aid if we did attack them?They were more on their own as the 60's developed, them and the Russians were having border skirmishes in the late 60s.
I'm sure the President and JCoS had good intel regarding the heightened tensions between the Soviet Union and China and to be honest, at that point in time, if the U.S. and China got into a shooting war, the Soviet Union may have just sat back and let China take a beating. Doing this would have allowed the SU to solve their border issue while at the same time, reinforce the SU's position as a dominant power in the region after the dust settled.When did the US realize the USSR & China were negatively relating with each other? Did the President of the US know this? Would the USSR have come to PRC's aid if we did attack them?