January: China occupies the oil-rich Paracel islands in the Which were previously controlled by South Vietnamese forces.
1975 30 April: Fall of Saigon. China ends GILS military aid Vietnam, citing the conclusion of hostilities.
September: The visit to Peking of Le Duan, the secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, ends without communiqué, chilliness Chinese-VietBut China grants Hanoi an interest-free loan.
1976 December: Fourth congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party. Pro-Chinese figures are removed central The press Hong Kong reveals existence of disputes on the general Giap, who also goes to Moscow.
1978 March: Nationalisation small businesses in Vietnam, a sucasure which affects numerous Chinese residents. Start of exodus by the Hoas (Chinese in Vietnam).
Almost 200,000 flee to China. Numerous others leave country by sea.
April: Nhan Dhan, the VCP daily, reports sporadic inciMay: Peking accuses Hanoi of "persecution and expulsion of Chinese residents in Vietnam'. Start of a polemic between the two countries on the problem of the Hoas.
June: China masses troops on the Vietnamese border. Nearly a thousand Chinese technicians working in Vietnam are sent to The Chinese ambassador in Hanoi leaves his post for reasons or neain.
June: Vietnam
Comecon. 1 July: China closure of the three Vietnamese consulates in South China. 3 July: China stops its aid to Vietnam and recalls CAUCILS.
August: Opening
negotiations in Hanoi on the problem the Hoas, without result. 25 August: The border disputes worsen. At least ten Chinese deaths are announced. The two sides exchange verbal attacks in and increasingly violent prothe ECSLS 26 September: The negotiations Hanoi are indefinitely. 1 November: Further serious indicents on involving deaths on both sides. Each government accuses the other of violating its territory. 3 November: Signing of SovietVietnamese treaty of friendship and co-operation in Moscow. Delivery of Soviet Mig-23s to Vietnam, to be followed in December by two frigates. 15 December: Peking announces that there have been 1,100 indicents on the China-Vietnam border since the start of 1978. the 22 December: Suspension of railway links between China and Vietnam.
6 January: Prince Sihanouk a Vanuary: The January: supported by the army, enters Phnom Penh. The Chinese denounce the invasion of Kampuchea by Vietnam. 20 January: The ministry of embassy against joins tions of Vietnamese territory by Chinese troops. demands the 31 January: During his visit to the United Xiaoping raises with American journalists the need to give 'a all its good lesson' to the Vietnamese.
16 February: Pham Van Dong, Vietnamese SOEC goes to Phnom Penh. Peking but describes the situation on the China-Vietnam 'explosive'. 17 February: China unleashes its counter-attack' into Vietnamese territory.
CHIN
adjourned BOTGET oil fields Philippines Shell FUNSK, Vietnamese Vietnamese foreign affairs Chinese in Hanoi protesting 'the continual violaStates, Deng minister, border as 200 400 issue.
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