Whether Peking's threats were genuine or not, American presidents prudently refused to risk such high odds. So Americans decided not to take the war to North Vietnam on ground because of fears of Chinese intervention. Summers contends that the US was "bluffed" by China. Memories of Mao Tse-tun's reaction when North Korea was overrun by United Nation troops in 1950 haunted the White House. General Dave Richard Palmer writes: The Johnson administration had already barricaded the one sure route to victory - to take the strategic offensive against the source of the war. The near-certainty of a second war with China deterred the Americans from taking the ground war beyond the 17th parallel. Oxford University Press, 2011.Īmericans feared the outcome if they crossed the border into North Vietnam. Second, China would give clear warning to the Americans. In any case, China was not ready to allow Vietnam become the third bastion of the Western Capitalism, like South Korea and Taiwan, to threaten/encircle her and therefore was willing to go through with any action to halt that course.įrom Semaphore's excellent answer to Why China did not assist in Vietnam like they did in Korea:į the Americans went beyond the bombing of the North and used ground forces to invade North Vietnam, China would have to send military fores. Protect South Vietnam, he might provoke the Chinese to stage aįull-scale military intervention similar to their intervention in 1950ĭuring the Korean War, as well as provoke the Soviets into launching aįull-scale military invasion of western Europe. Regime with an invasion of North Vietnam, rather than simply try to Johnson was afraid that if he tried to defeat the North Vietnamese Wikipedia article on President Johnson also confirms it as: The answer to why the Americans did not make a fuss about it was that they were afraid of further escalating the tensions with the Chinese to an all-out war. Vietnam: The necessary war - Michael Lind 2 Why have the Americans not made a fuss about the fact that more thanġ00,000 Chinese troops help you building the railways, roads and ![]() Chinese servicemen sent to North Vietnam for rebuilding and aerial defense numbered to almost 170,000. What was worse, Chinese and Soviets allied against US (Of course later they split up) as Richard Halbrooke said:Ģ,000 years of Chinese-Vietnamese enmity and hundreds of years ofĬhinese and Russian mutual suspicions were suspended when they unitedĬhina had already sent military and financial aid to North Vietnam in billions. What is happening to America? The hidden truth to global Destruction - Simona Pipko 1 Prepared, and if America takes the risk of attacking North Vietnam, Most it’s no worse than having another Korean War. Mao allegedly said:īest turn it into a bigger war. The sole reason was fear of Chinese intervention just like in Korea.Ĭhinese were fully committed to the war.
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