Tuesday, February 17, 2009
China downplays anniversary of Vietnam border war
Posted on 2:31 PM by svdfbd
By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday sought to downplay the 30th anniversary of a short but bloody border war with one-time close Communist ally Vietnam, barely mentioning it in the media and seeking to deflect questions. China invaded Vietnam on February 17, 1979, to punish Hanoi for toppling the Beijing-backed Khmer Rouge in Cambodia one month earlier. China had
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