In June 1983, shortly after Vice Premier Li Xiannian was elected President of the State, the Chairman of the Vietnam National Committee (later renamed President) Long March mailed a message through the Vietnam Embassy in China: Vietnam hopes to hold a high-level dialogue with China on the issue of armed conflict on the Sino-Vietnam border.
Vietnam's top leader Le Duan has not been confused yet, and is still very clear about international diplomatic practices and knows that the President should come forward to deal with national diplomatic affairs.
Vietnamese moderates took the initiative to show goodwill to China on behalf of the Long March. This is a good thing. Of course, Li Xiannian would not refuse. However, considering that Vietnam's real decision-making power is firmly controlled by Li Duan, Li Deshou , and Fan Wentong, what the Long March said does not count, so he responded: China adheres to the principles proposed by the two sides during the negotiations in April 1979. Does Vietnam accept it?
Li Xiannian's response is very simple: Whether Vietnam has sincerity to negotiate, and Vietnam has sincerity, then negotiate well. If there is no sincerity, there is no need to start high-level negotiations.
Results Vietnam not only did not continue to spread the message, but instead allowed the Vietnamese military representative Wen Jinyong to continuously increase troops to the Sino-Vietnam border area, trying to make China concessions in some aspects by showing off its military power.
Li Xiannian immediately met with Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia in the name of the Central Committee, and said: China has always supported the Democratic Republic of Cambodia and Thailand to counterattack the Vietnamese invaders, completely cutting off the idea of the Le Duan Group to intimidate China in order to dominate Southeast Asia.
日本日本 1983, the Le Duan Group suffered repeated setbacks in diplomacy. Although the Vietnamese army firmly controlled Laos and Cambodia , when the United Nations held various meetings every year, Vietnam was the target of public condemnation of the member states at the meetings, and the relationship between the former allies and Vietnam was becoming increasingly cold.
Vietnam was also defeated militarily. Cambodia, which has a population of only a few million, has become increasingly powerful with the assistance of Southeast Asian countries, and the Vietnamese army suffered increasingly heavy casualties. Since early January 1979, the Vietnamese army has captured Cambodia for more than four years, but not only has it not recovered the cost of war, but it has instead made Cambodia a burden to hinder Vietnam's development.
At this time, the Li Duan group had already experienced the feeling of World War II during German Nazis and Japanese fascists being criticized by thousands of people. If they were not done, they would really destroy their country.
In terms of economy, Vietnam has become a waste of life. Previously, in order to raise funds for the war, the Li Duan Group wanted to plunder the wealth of the rich, but unexpectedly caused panic among the people. Most of the elites ran away, and the rest were the bottom of the society without business acumen. Most Vietnamese civilians are unable to create huge wealth and cannot solve the economic crisis facing Vietnam .
Li Duan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. He wanted to succumb to reality and imitate China and focus his strategic focus on economic construction. Unexpectedly, the moderates represented by the Long March strongly opposed it. Li Duan wanted to suppress the moderates, but found that they were powerless.
Initially, when Vietnam regarded China as its number one enemy, Vietnam's founding elder and former vice president Huang Wenhuan publicly opposed it. Zhang Ruyi, the former Minister of Justice who had a certain prestige in the former place of South Vietnam, also publicly opposed it. Although Wu Yuanjia, the highest prestige in the military, supported Vietnam's anti-China, it opposed a war with China.
Later, Huang Wenhuan moved to China and established anti-Vietnamese armed forces in China. Zhang Ruyi moved to France. From time to time, Vietnamese cadres went to join him. Wu Yuanjia was sent home to retire because of his unstable attitude. If the moderates represented by the Long March are suppressed at this time, no one will be available to Li Duan. But without suppressing moderates, Vietnam's plan to dominate Southeast Asia will never be realized, and Le Duan is in a dilemma.
Take the blame
Can't defeat the Long March, and Li Duan came up with the idea of letting the Long March take the blame.
In early 1982, Li Duan intended to retreat behind the scenes, intending to let all the figures in Vietnam's top management retreat to the second line, and young people came out to carry the banner. In order to avoid being liquidated in the future, Li Duan arranged his two sons, son-in-law and family brothers in key departments early.As a result, Li Deshou was not outdone, and his four brothers also entered some key departments to hold important positions.
The practice of Li Duan and Li Deshou being "family in the world" was soon exposed by Zhang Ruyi and Huang Wenhuan. Then ethnic minorities in the central plateau area of Vietnam rose up. Huang Jiming's "anti-Japanese War Army" had seriously threatened the normal operation of the Dalat nuclear reactor in Vietnam. The "anti-Liao-National-Salvation Guerrillas" formed by Huang Wenhuan frequently operated in northern Vietnam.
Li Duan realized at this time that if Vietnam had been unable to get along with China like this, it would be not far from the destruction of its country. Since the early 1970s, it seems that the whole world has been facing China. Even Vietnam's allies, who are gritting their teeth on the surface, but secretly have more or less contacts with China. On the contrary, Vietnam, because it controls Laos and Cambodia, fell into an isolated situation.
Seeing that the world was enemies in the past, it has become Japan, which has a certain international voice. Li Duan believes that Vietnam still has a chance to turn around. The most important thing at the moment is to use the relationship between Vietnamese moderates and China to ease the relationship between the two countries. As long as China no longer opposes Vietnam, Vietnam will not have that resistance to dominating Southeast Asia by then.
As for why the Le Duan Group has always been obsessed with dominating Southeast Asia, it may be difficult for most people to understand, but Vietnamese people know best that Vietnam is a coastal country without strategic depth, and its per capita natural resource share is very low. In the international jungle law of the strong prey on the weak, Vietnam always has a strong sense of insecurity. Only by annexing Laos and Cambodia can Vietnam solve the problem of insufficient food supply in its own population and have strategic depth, otherwise Vietnam will never be able to get rid of the fate of being colonized by a powerful country.
At present, what Le Duan needs to do is to ease China-Vietnam relations, but annexation of Cambodia and Laos is Vietnam's bottom line. The moderates represented by the Long March do not agree to adopt other methods, so let them solve this problem.
If the Long March is completed, Vietnam can follow the trend of the times and resume economic relations with China immediately after the big brother. If it cannot be done, let them take the blame.
has no sincerity
At this time, the big brother and China have held their first deputy foreign minister-level consultation on restoring bilateral relations. Vietnam, as the pawn of the big brother, no longer needs to be unable to get along with China.
As soon as the Chinese leader changed its term, Li Duan immediately asked the then Vietnamese President Long March to come forward, and the Long March directly proposed high-level negotiations on the issue of restoring peace on the Sino-Vietnam border.
Vietnam had enough bargaining chips to negotiate with China at that time. First, Vietnam received support from the big brother and began to rebuild the Dalat nuclear reactor that the United States had demolished in 1982 and made significant progress. With a nuclear reactor, it is not far from being nuclear. Secondly, Vietnam has a big brother to protect it. The Vietnamese army has raided China's borders all year round. Except for China, few countries condemn Vietnam because most countries hope that Vietnam will weaken China's military power.
However, Li Xiannian replied to Vietnam: China still adheres to its original opinions. Vietnam must not only stop armed provocations against China, but also withdraw troops from Cambodia and Laos to restore regional peace. If it is sincere, the two sides can hold high-level dialogue anytime and anywhere.
It is okay to withdraw the Vietnamese army from the Sino-Vietnam border area and Laos, because the Vietnamese army is not the opponent of the People's Liberation Army, and if it does not withdraw, it will only be beaten. Laos is obedient to Vietnam, and evacuating the troops can also take full control of it, but evacuating the troops that occupied Cambodia is absolutely not enough. It is the life-saving granary of the Vietnamese. Once the troops withdraw, they cannot continue to control Cambodia.
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Soon after, Vietnam's Defense Minister Wen Jinyong was instructed by Le Duan to continuously increase troops to the Sino-Vietnam border area. The air force bases that had been relocated became active again. The aircraft missile are complete, the army tank and cannons are increasing, and the Vietnamese army occupying Laoshan and Zheyin Mountain are becoming more and more arrogant.Obviously, Li Duan wants to put pressure on China by showing off his force, so that Vietnam can gain more voice in the upcoming negotiations.
After the Vietnamese army was ready for war, Vietnam publicly clamored: The war between China and Vietnam is about to break out.
In response to this, Li Xiannian met and invited Cambodian leader Prince Sihanouk in accordance with international diplomatic practices, and publicly stated that China has always supported Cambodia and Thailand's anti-Vietnam aggression struggle.
A short sentence contains a huge amount of information. It is to tell Cambodia and Thailand: As long as the Vietnamese army does not withdraw, we will attack them and attack them hard. If you want guns and cannons, just open your mouth . is to tell Vietnam not to have any illusions about symmetrical kings. Only by stopping foreign troops can Vietnam be saved.
Li Duan never expected that he wanted to take advantage of the afterglow of Vietnam's military and military force to intimidate China, but he didn't expect to kick the steel plate. It is difficult to get rid of the tiger. If the troops from the six northern provinces are directly withdrawn, if the insiders do not agree, they will be destroyed by their own people. If China does not agree to withdraw its troops, it will also be at risk of collapse. At present, we can only wait for some countries that can speak to mediate, so that both sides can have a way out.
What disappoints Le Duan is that whether it is India or Indonesia or , these countries are persuading Vietnam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia, which is not what the Le Duan Group is willing to hear. A few countries that support Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia hope that Vietnam will continue to engage in military confrontation with China, but will not provide military assistance. The result is that no country is willing to come out as an intermediary, and the troops of both sides are in a stalemate in the border areas.
In April 1984, the Vietnamese army and more than 1,600 military targets within 20 kilometers of the border area were caught off guard by the Chinese army and suffered heavy losses. The Yue army wanted to give up, so they simply let it go, but they didn't have enough weapons and ammunition. While shelling, the Chinese army carried out rocket mine laying, fighting a modern corps war, and the Vietnamese army was unable to fight. At the end of April, the Chinese army successively took back Laoshan and Zheyin Mountain from the Vietnamese army.
This large-scale artillery battle lasted for a full 26 days. During this period, no country provided weapons and ammunition to Vietnam. Le Duan could only break her teeth and swallow it in her stomach.
