(September 11, 2013 at 8:30 pm)Chuck Wrote: 1. It would have been quite a wonder for the ages if the then still backwards "people's war" China were to be able to intervene militarily in the then still nearly almighty superpower USSR. What transpired was a border dispute resulting in a border skirmesh, in which the Soviet Union attacked the disputed territory first and easily held it.
I thought China attacked first.
Quote:2. China aided the cambodia with arms and supplies during Vietnam war, Cambodian civil war, and Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. But AFAIK there were no intrusion nor threat of intrusion of Chinese forces into Cambodia, so there was no intervention. There was an actual invasion of China into Vietnam in the same period in response to vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, but we've counted that already.
I know that the Chinese invaded Vietnam after Vietnam invaded Cambodia but in my oppinion the aid given to the Khmer Rouge is a military intervention. Military intervention does not simply mean an invasion or a boming. Giving arms to a side in a war that seeks to achieve goals in line with yours is also a form of military intervention.