Sino-US war in Vietnam - China in Vietnam & USA part 8

 

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Sino-US war in Vietnam - China in Vietnam & USA

What happened to the Americans in Vietnam?

Why couldn't China help Pakistan in 1971?

Did you know that there was a war between China and India even after 1962?

What was that story

How did the US save China from Russian atomic bombs?

I am Sadaqat Ali and History of China Opium C-Pack. I will show you all this.There was a cook in France who made pastries.The cook's hopes were dashed when US President Wilson arrived in France for a peace deal at the end of World War I.He wanted to meet the American president.But obviously why would an American president meet an ordinary cook? But I wish they knew that today's average cook is going to weigh heavily on Americans in the years to come.He was the same cook who defeated both France and the United States in the Vietnam War of Independence 40 years later.Thanks to which Vietnam gained independence from France and this cook became famous all over the world.This was Ho Chi Minh, the hero of Vietnam's independence.Ho Chi Minh wanted to liberate his nation from the 70-year French occupation.And for that he had to wait until the end of World War II.After the war, he united his compatriots and stood up to France.Ho Chi Minh's army, without air force and modern weapons, captured France's most important base in 1904, Diane Benfu. Also captured And weapons from more than 12,000 French soldiers.This great victory liberated North Vietnam from French imperialism.But the French government credited China for its failure, saying the war was a victory for China, not Vietnam.Because it was Mao who was sending arms and troops to help Vietnam.When Mao Zedong ruled China, it was a time when most countries of the world were the scene of proxy wars between the United States and Russia.The collapse of states, the assassination of elected rulers, and the seizure of power by military dictators were commonplace.It was an environment in which even China had to jump into many wars or support someone unwillingly.That is why after the revolution, Korea, Taiwan, India and Vietnam have seen China fighting on many fronts.China even had to side with Pakistan at some level in the wars of 1965 and 1971 against India.In the wars between Korea and India, China had asserted its power, but a huge thorn in its side remained.As you have read in previous Article of History of China.That the United States had threatened China with a nuclear attack during the Korean and Taiwan wars.Since then, China has quietly moved towards becoming a nuclear power.On October 17, 1964, China detonated its first atomic bomb and got rid of the US nuclear threat forever.China had become a nuclear power, but the clouds of war were hovering over Vietnam.The reason was that despite the defeat of France, only the northern part of Vietnam was liberated.On which Ho Chi Minh had formed his own communist government.As for the southern part, here the United States formed its own puppet government under the pretext of stopping communism.South Vietnam now had a US-backed government that did not want to ally with North Vietnam.Ho Chi Minh, on the other hand, wanted to unite Vietnam in any case.So they deployed their guerrilla forces into South Vietnam to snatch it from American control by force.

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Thus, the Korean story is now being repeated in Vietnam.A fierce battle broke out between the South Vietnamese army and the North Vietnamese guerrilla forces.In that war, the United States was providing South Vietnam with modern weapons, military training and advice.When things got worse in South Vietnam So in November 1963, the US CIA assassinated the president of its ally South Vietnam and established a military government there.The move was approved by US President John F. Kennedy himself.What's more, just two weeks after the operation, on November 22, some shots were fired and John F. Kennedy was killed.The conspiracy theory that John F. Kennedy was assassinated by those Americans is still repeated today.Who wanted to send large numbers of US troops to Vietnam.And Kennedy didn't want that.

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So they were taken out of the way. We cannot say what the truth is. However, this is also a theory.Whatever the case, Johnson became President of the United States as soon as he deviated from Kennedy's path.There was no US military presence in South Vietnam when Johnson entered the White House Only American advisers worked there.But Johnson moved US troops into South Vietnam.For military intervention, Johnson used the excuse that on the night of August 4, 1964, the North Vietnamese Navy attacked two US ships.But there was one small problem, and that was that there was no attack on American planes on the night of August 4.The US President was lying.By 1965, large numbers of US troops had entered South Vietnam.The United States has begun bombing North Vietnamese guerrillas.U.S. Air Force Chief Curtis Lee May was even saying that he would push Vietnam into the Stone Age.Perhaps this is their motto, which is why the United States said such things during the invasion of Afghanistan.The United States had invaded North Vietnam, but both North Vietnam and China were fully prepared for the war.

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Not only that, when the American bombardment on the roads exceeded the limit, the Vietnamese also built their supply line in the jungle.Vietnamese guerrillas dig tunnels into the jungle.They used these tunnels to bring weapons, food and fighters from North Vietnam to South Vietnam.Vietnamese forces were preparing a major attack on the Americans with the help of China.But in the meantime, another front opened up for China.In 1961, the two countries shelled each other on the Sikkim border of China and India.The shelling lasted for four or five days.China also threatened to use air force against India.India claims to have thwarted a Chinese attack and killed 400 of its troops, while only 88 of its own were killed.China says less than 100 soldiers from both countries were killed.But since the fighting was limited to shelling, no casualties were reported and no territory was conquered.Therefore, this conflict cannot be called a war, nor can any country be declared a complete winner.Since China was busy in Vietnam, it could not afford a big war with India and that was the end of the matter.The China-India front has cooled, but the Vietnam War is still heating up.In January 1968, the North Vietnamese launched an attack on the southern part called the Tate Offense.Viet Cong guerrillas entered hundreds of cities and towns in one day, and then a terrible war broke out.The US embassy in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, became a battleground.The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a U.S. military base.But because of the war, the whole of South Vietnam was jammed.Tate Afanso continued intermittently for a whole year.However, the US military eventually repulsed the attack.

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But when pictures and bodies of American soldiers killed in the war began to arrive in droves in the United States, there was chaos.The Americans began protesting against the war.But that was not the only reason to oppose the war.This may be new to many, but at the time, the United States had a law on conscription.The government could send any citizen to the battlefield, and anyone who refused would be sent to prison.Famous boxer Muhammad Ali also had to go to jail for refusing to participate in the Vietnam War.There were five and a half million US troops in Vietnam who were called back and replaced by new ones.Thus, under the Compulsory Military Service Act, 2.5 million Americans participated in the Vietnam War.Since these Americans were not regular soldiers, they soon began to hate the war.These people would return home and tell such horrific stories of war that the people would get even more angry.The anti-war atmosphere was such that US President Johnson's defeat in the next election became clear.He announced that he would not run for the presidency.He was the second US president since Truman to step down from the presidency after a war that left him unpopular.In which China also participated.

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When the presidential election took place in November 1967, Richard Nixon became the new President of the United States.Before the election, Nixon promised the American people that he would end the Vietnam War.It has been a tradition in American history for a president to start a war and make a name for himself And the other gets the key to the White House by voting in the name of ending the war.The same thing happened during the Vietnam War.But when Nixon took office, not only did he renege on his promise to end the Vietnam War.It also opened a new front in neighboring Cambodia, Vietnam.Nixon said Vietnamese guerrillas bring their supplies from Cambodia, so it is important to attack there.But now the American people's patience is running out, especially as students take to the streets.Demonstrations began to take place in cities, which the army had to be called in to crush.On May 4, 1970, four students, including two female students, were shot dead by U.S. troops at Kent State University (Ohio).Bodies lay on the American streets, and the American people felt the heat of war in their homes.Demonstrations intensified and finally Nixon had to kneel.He decided to withdraw from Vietnam, but by then the United States had changed dramatically.The United States understood that it could not eliminate Soviet power unless it annexed China.Because everywhere, be it Korea or Vietnam, the United States was facing China directly.The United States now wanted to befriend China, for which it had a chance.The border dispute between Russia and China took the form of animosity.So much so that the Soviet Union decided to drop an atomic bomb on China and destroy it.Russia has called on the United States to remain neutral on the issue.But the United States has denied that it would fire nuclear missiles at 130 Russian cities if China was attacked.So the matter cooled down. Now the US has hatched a secret plan and used Pakistan as a platform to reach China.So in July 1971, a plane flew from Pakistan to China.The plane was carrying US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.He met with Chinese officials.Then he returned, and three months later, in October, China became a member of the United Nations and a permanent seat on the Security Council.The United States apparently did not vote for China, but its main allies, Britain, Canada and Israel, sided with China.This reinforces the impression that the United States has a hand in getting China to join the United Nations.By 1937, two years after the incident, the US military had withdrawn from Vietnam.Perhaps this was because the global interests of the United States and China were becoming one And they had a secret agreement to end the proxy war in Vietnam.Whatever the reality, North Vietnam occupied South Vietnam in 1975 and the Vietnam War ended.Vietnam was liberated from French occupation and civil war But Ho Chi Minh, the hero of freedom, did not live to see it.

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The Vietnam War is the only defeat in American history so far.The United States also abolished compulsory military service after the war.Now every war is fought by the regular American army.And that's why the United States now uses the Air Force more because it can't afford more casualties.The war in Vietnam involved 320,000 Chinese troops, but the death toll was small.About 4,000 Chinese soldiers were killed.Fifty-eight thousand American soldiers were killed.Vietnam suffered the most, with three million people killed.Millions fled Vietnam in boats and drowned.It is also said that the US bombing in Cambodia also killed some two million people.However, in the Vietnam War, the Chinese allies won and the war ended.But unlike Vietnam, China could not help Pakistan in the 1971 Pak-India war.There were two reasons for this.One reason was that it was difficult for China to take any action against India due to snowfall on the China-India border.The second reason was that Russia had also threatened China If China tried to help Pakistan in the war, Russia would also jump into the war.Therefore, China could not openly start a war against India. And this war ended with the break up of Pakistan.Meanwhile, the United States broke Russia's main ally, China, in 1971.Russia was now alone in world politics.Within eight years, the United States had embroiled the Soviet Union in the Afghan war and finally tore it to pieces.Although many see this success as the success of the United States and Afghanistan.But the fact is that the Soviet Union would never have collapsed if not for Pakistan, the United States and Afghanistan.With the defeat of the Soviet Union, the Cold War ended.But after 1971, as long as the Cold War continued, Russia and China remained enemies.Meanwhile, China also attacked its old ally Vietnam.

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