It just seems like pure brainworms to me, why did it need to happen? Why did China support Pol Pot at all at one point?
I promise I’m not trying to do a western leftist “um ackshly China is imperialist” thing, I want to see your point of view on this.
Sounds like Deng was kind of a fuckwad tbh. Could Vietnam really have posed a long term threat to China?
I don’t really know if Vietnam would have posed a long-term threat to China, although I just found a really interesting post at /r/AskHistorians about this topic.