Reflections From International and Chinese Media
On March 1, 2005, Howard W. French wrote in The New York Times: Some historians stated that the war was started by Mr. Deng (China's then paramount leader Deng Xiaoping) to keep the army preoccupied while he consolidated power...
The Chinese official name for the war was 对越自卫反击战 (duì yuè zì wèi fǎn jī zhàn), roughly translated as 'self-defense counterattack against Vietnam'.
Read more about this topic: Sino-Vietnamese War
Famous quotes containing the words reflections and/or media:
“Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
—Serge Daney (1944–1992)