The 1979 Sino-Vietnamese war and Deng Xiaoping's China

• Main Author: Tan, Kirk Benjamin
• Other Authors: -
• Format: Thesis-Master by Coursework
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::China; Humanities::History::Asia::Vietnam; Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137931
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This dissertation aims to show the impact of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War on China’s national interests until 1991. While the extant literature often portrays the war as a military and operational failure for China, accounts often overlook the benefits of the war for China’s strategic and political...