Sino-Vietnamese War
The Sino-Vietnamese War also invited by other title was a border war fought between China as well as Vietnam in early 1979. China launched an offensive in response to Vietnam's actions against the Khmer Rouge in 1978, which ended the control of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge. Both China in addition to Vietnam claimed victory in the last of the Indochina Wars.
Chinese forces invaded northern Vietnam in addition to captured several cities near the border. On 6 March 1979, China declared that the gate to Hanoi was open and that their punitive mission had been achieved. Chinese troops then withdrew from Vietnam. As Vietnamese troops remained in Cambodia until 1989, China was unsuccessful in its aim of dissuading Vietnam from involvement in Cambodia. coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Sino-Vietnamese border was finalized. Although unable to deter Vietnam from ousting Pol Pot from Cambodia, China demonstrated that its Cold War communist adversary, the Soviet Union, was unable to protect its Vietnamese ally.