Search | Wilson Center Digital Archive

Switch to Visualization

China--Foreign relations--Vietnam (Socialist Republic) Clear All

Related Resources

Portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, 1972.

East Asia

China

The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, 2012.

Southeast Asia

Vietnam

Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979

Placeholder image for when a Topics image is not available

Cambodian-Vietnamese War, 1977-1991

Placeholder image for when a places image is not available

Southeast Asia

Cambodia

Aerial view of National Mall

North America

United States

Sino-Soviet Relations

China-Southeast Asia Relations

Japan's Itsukushima Shrine

East Asia

Japan

Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-1984

Photograph of a US POW during the Vietnam War.

Vietnam War

Photograph fo Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing

China. Foreign Ministry

1949 -

Deng Xiaoping, 1979.

Deng, Xiaoping

1904 - 1997

Portrait of Mao Zedong from propaganda poster

Mao, Zedong

1893 - 1976

Placeholder image for when a portrait image is not available

Ha, Van Lau

1918 -

Photograph of Li Xiannian

Li, Xiannian

1909 - 1992

Photograph of Zhou Enlai in 1972.

Zhou, Enlai

1898 - 1976

Results:

11 - 20 of 83

Display:

Sort By:

Documents

June 4, 1979	Cable, Foreign Ministry and State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office to Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Fujian Provinces Poul Hartling, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will visit China to try to resolve the refugee crisis stemming from the Sino-Vietnamese conflict.
May 23, 1979	Cable from the Foreign Ministry, 'On Maintaining Consistent Lines in Propaganda on the Vietnam Issue' Propaganda guidance for Chinese officials to rely upon when discussing the Sino-Vietnamese conflict with foreign nationals.
April 16, 1979	Cable from the Foreign Ministry, 'Notice on Holding Vice Foreign Minister Level Talks Between China and Vietnam' A report on negotiations between China and Vietnam ongoing in Hanoi. Document outlines China's positions, as well as how China interprets Vietnam's positions, in the talks.
March 1, 1979	Cable from the Foreign Ministry, 'Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping Discusses the Vietnam Issue' A summary of a conversation where Deng Xiaoping said, "We are now teaching a lesson to the Cuba of the East -- Vietnam."
February 21, 1979	Cable from the Foreign Ministry, 'Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping Discusses the Vietnam Issue with a Foreign Guest' Comments made by Deng Xiaoping regarding Vietnam, or the "Cuba of the East."
January 19, 1979	Cable from the Foreign Ministry and Public Security Ministry, 'Notice on the Abrogation of the PRC-Vietnam Visa Free Travel Agreement' In light of "anti-China crazed behavior on the part of Vietnam," the Chinese Foreign Ministry and Public Security Ministry have decided to abrogate a visa agreement with Vietnam.
1988	Nguyễn Thủ Thanh, 'A Study of the Use of a Number of Psychological Characteristics of Ethnic Chinese in the Interrogation of Accused and Suspected Chinese Spies' In 1988 a classified Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security’s in-house professional journal published this article offering ideas on how to utilize the “psychological characteristics” of the ethnic Chinese in the interrogation of suspected “Chinese spies”. At the time the article was published, the once-close alliance between the Vietnamese and Chinese Communist Parties, which Mao Zedong described in 1967 as being “as close as between lips and teeth”, had deteriorated into a vicious military and political conflict between the two former allies. Chinese efforts to collect intelligence on and to foment internal opposition against the leadership of the Vietnamese Communist Party were of special concern to Vietnam’s security service, and ethnic Chinese residents of Vietnam naturally became a primary focus of Vietnam’s counter-espionage efforts.
October 1, 1977	Talk Given by the Minister [Trần Quốc Hoàn] at the 3rd Investigative Conference [Excerpts] Trần Quốc Hoàn reviews cases against foreign and domestic spies in the Vietnam Wars.
November 2, 1979	Letter Dated 2 November 1979 from the Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General The Vietnamese Permanent Representative to the UN submits an excerpt from a record of conversation between Pol Pot and Hua Guofeng, dated September 29, 1977.
November 9, 1986	Cable No. 3757, Ambassador Nakae to the Foreign Minister, 'The Prime Minister’s Visit to China (Meeting with General Secretary Hu - Japan-China Relations)' Hu and Nakasone discuss some of their countries respective foreign policy priorities, including the USSR, the United States, the Cambodian-Vietnamese conflict, Eastern Europe, and Afghanistan, as well as arms control.