Wasn’t it more like “the USSR is revisionist so we (China) will intervene on behalf of anti-soviet third world groups, even if those groups are on the US side of the Cold War axis”?
That was the initial spilt, yes. But it's hard to go from that to "therefore we should invade Vietnam." I know China had difficult choices to make but the more I read about Deng, even from his own writings, the more I disagree.
Wasn’t it more like “the USSR is revisionist so we (China) will intervene on behalf of anti-soviet third world groups, even if those groups are on the US side of the Cold War axis”?
That was the initial spilt, yes. But it's hard to go from that to "therefore we should invade Vietnam." I know China had difficult choices to make but the more I read about Deng, even from his own writings, the more I disagree.
Oh yeh, for sure they made the wrong call. The initial assessment was correct, but they went in a very counterproductive direction.