Clearly China took some lessons away from Vietnam. Did the USA?
China in Vietnam – An act of aggression to match its return to capitalism
First Published: In Struggle! Vol. 6, No. 31, March 13, 1979
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Honourable rulers in capitalist countries around the world: If the Russian bear or any of the regimes backed by the USSR start infringing upon the development plans of your country or the competitiveness of your market, bring out the heavy artillery!’ The new Number One in China, Deng Xiaoping, wants everyone to understand this simple lesson if he has to repeat it a thousand times: “That is the only language the USSR understands.”
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided recently to give back to the industrial and merchant sections of the national bourgeoisie all of the enormous bank deposits and other assets belonging to them... and to re-institute their high salaries and give them the pay which is presently overdue.” (Les Cahiers de la Chine nouvelle, no. 62, February 2, 1979, p. 6, our translation)
China is now an expansionist power which poses a
real threat to the peoples in
other countries. It is now
ready to pokes its head in
each time a country’s policy
will not be to its liking. Vietnam, allied with the social-
imperialist USSR, has talked
a good deal recently about
China’s preparations for a
big war to extend its
hegemony in South East Asia.
The Chinese provocateurs
should be treated for what
they really are: a new
bourgeoisie which is increasingly aggressive, foaming at the mouth at the
prospect of controlling
economically and politically
larger and larger areas of
Asia and the rest of the
world. That is the real lesson, pure and simple that
Deng and the Chinese
leaders want to teach the
world.