This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, which took place from February 17 to March 16, 1979. Many people think that this war was inevitable; not only was China feeling ...

Overall, while the Sino-Vietnamese border wars might have seemed insignificant, they proved to be an effective testing ground for the PLA’s reforms. Trials by fire in the Laoshan sector allowed the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Sino-Vietnamese war is generally perceived in the West as humiliating for Chinese forces. Undeniably, the PLA sustained heavy casualties, took longer than it ...

FILE PHOTO - China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Gen. Li Zuocheng, center, speaks during a meeting with U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, not shown, at the Bayi Building in Beijing, ...

In one of the many war cemeteries in Lang Son, a city in northern Vietnam, Pham Thi Ky and her family light incense and offer prayers for her brother-in-law, who died 36 years ago in Vietnam's brief ...

While Beijing may prefer to forget about China’s Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979, Rachel Lu reports for Tea Leaf Nation that many still remember as “hot debates about conflict still rage on in corners of ...

The vintage photo shows a young American medical officer examining a 5-year-old Vietnamese refugee, tears rolling down the boy’s cheek. The year is 1979, and the earnest physician on board the USS ...

The TV ads are calling it “the most eagerly awaited motion picture of all time.” Now comes the inevitable question. Was “Apocalypse Now,” the movie that nearly cost its creator, Francis Coppola, his ...

Vietnamese in the northern province of Lang Son seek refuge after Chinese forces crossed the border entered Vietnam in February 1979. In one of the many war cemeteries in Lang Son, a city in northern ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military has promoted an army general who fought Vietnam in a brief border war in 1979, the Defence Ministry said, part of a broad reshuffle expected as part of this autumn ...