After the founding of New China, the international situation was in a state of flux, and as a newborn country, China was in a state of waste waiting to be rebuilt, and what was urgently needed was time for development and a stable environment. However, the international situation refused to give us this time, and wave after wave of tests struck one after another, and New China repeatedly faced choices at the fork in the road.
The first test of the international situation for China was the controversy over North Korea, when the United States, as one of the world's two great hegemons, tried to establish a new capital order after the end of the world war, and New China was regarded as a thorn in its side because of its ideological problems. In order to restrain China, the United States began to meddle in North Korean affairs, and under these circumstances, Chairman Mao resolutely decided to resist the United States and aid Korea. A million volunteers were so powerful that they foiled the U.S. conspiracy and built a line of defense for China's border. To this day, North Korea and China still maintain friendly and cooperative relations.
In the 1970s, New China once again came to a fork in the road, and this time the crisis came from what we have always considered the big brother, the Soviet Union. In the process of the founding of New China, the Soviet Union really helped us a lot, and there was assistance in all aspects, and Sino-Soviet relations were also very good after the founding of New China. However, in the later period, the Soviet Union gradually crossed the line and began to dictate to China's internal politics, which was something that no country that longed for independence and sovereignty could tolerate, and the relations between the two sides began to become cold and even tense.
In order to persecute us, the Soviet Union withdrew a large number of experts and construction personnel, and China's construction in full swing also suffered a great blow. Many places had to start building from scratch and developing from scratch, but China gritted its teeth and persevered. But the trouble is not only that, the Soviet side began to stir up relations between neighboring countries and China, and Vietnam was the vanguard. After the death of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam began to perfidiously and constantly used military power to provoke our country, and if it were only that, it would be bearable, but Vietnam, which was overheated, committed a great taboo, hurt the Chinese people in our border areas, and did things that people and gods were indignant about.
For a time, the whole country was indignant, and whether to send troops to Vietnam was placed in the center.
At the meeting, the two voices of troop dispatch and war avoidance were in a dispute. Emotionally speaking, sending troops to Vietnam was a matter of course, but at that time, the situation in China was really not suitable for big trouble. First, the country is in a period of economic recovery, and sending troops will have an impact on all aspects of production and life; second, Vietnam has the support of the Soviet side behind it, fearing that this war will drag our country into a quagmire and will be very troublesome; third, it is considering that the Soviet Union will join the battlefield and threaten our northeast region. These are real questions in front of us, and whether to send troops has also become a focus.
The number of people who supported the view of avoiding war was not a small number, even Marshal Ye Jianying and General Su Yu had this attitude, and both of them stated the pros and cons, which really made it difficult for Deng Gong, who presided over the meeting, to decide. Because the invasion of Vietnam is likely to be a protracted thing, if the situation has twists and turns, it will set off huge waves in the international community, and China's situation will become more and more difficult.
It was not until Comrade Chen Yun put forward his own views that Deng Gong made up his mind to send troops to Vietnam.
At the meeting, Comrade Chen Yun resolutely wanted to fight back against Vietnam and teach them a lesson, and advocated that the sooner the troops were dispatched, the greater the advantage, and they could hit Vietnam unprepared. These remarks were exactly in line with Deng Gong's wishes; New China was born in the midst of war, and the bullying of foreign enemies has always fought back with an iron fist. Only in this way can the countries of the world face China squarely, and only by beating Vietnam hard can we sober up the foreign forces behind it.
Therefore, the Central Committee launched a self-defense counterattack on February 17, 1979, which lasted less than a month, Vietnam was beaten to pieces by the People's Liberation Army, and even the Soviet Union quietly withdrew its support. This war shocked the world and brought out China's style, and since then China has ushered in a long-term peace situation, and no country has dared to use force against China.
Weak countries have no diplomacy, and this is the bloody lesson that China's modern history has given us. If you want to maintain the stability of the country, blindly retreating and forbearing will only encourage the arrogance of the enemy. If the enemy dares to extend his claws, he must interrupt it, and China's majesty brooks no provocation.