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- Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace
in Vietnam, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. This discussion of
CCP-VWP debates over strategy follows Nguyen. - According to Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Le Duan’s and Nguyen Chi Thanh’s “south
first” group was opposed by a “north first” faction, which included most VWP elders—Ho,
Giap, Pham Van Dong—who favored socialist construction in the north and lower inten-
sity war in the south. The military prescriptions of this “north first” group tended to
converge with Beijing’s prescriptions. This clash in preferred military strategies did not
become intense, according to Nguyen, until 1967–1968, in the lead-up to the Tet Offensive. - Zhai, China and Vietnam Wars, p. 113.
- Zhai, China and Vietnam Wars, p. 116.
- See Duiker, The Communist Road to Power. Nguyen, Hanoi’s War.
- “Statement against U.S.-Ngo Dinh Diem Clique’s Aggression in South Vietnam and
Massacre of the South Vietnamese People,” August 29, 1963, Mao Zedong on Diplomacy,
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2007, pp. 385–6. - Zhao, China and Vietnam Wars, pp. 118–20.
- Regarding China’s policies during the Laotian crisis of 1961–1962, see Chae Jin Lee,
“Chinese Communist Policy in Laos: 1954–1964,” PhD diss., University of California in
Los Angeles, 1966. Brian Crozier, “Peking and the Laotian Crisis: An Interim Appraisal,”
China Quarterly, no. 6 (July–September 1961), pp. 128–37. - The official name of the second province is Houa Phan, but it is commonly named
after its main city, Sam Neua. - Brian Crozier, “Peking and the Laotian Crisis: A Further Appraisal,” China
Quarterly, no. 11 (July–September 1962), pp. 116–23. - Regarding US policy, see Roger Hilsman, To Move a Nation, New York: Delta, 1976,
pp. 91–155. - Arthur Lall, How Communist China Negotiates, New York: Columbia University
Press, 1968, pp. 140–51. Lall was India’s representative to the conference. - Burma was renamed Myanmar in 1989.
- China’s Foreign Relations: A Chronology of Events, Beijing: Foreign Languages
Press, 1989, pp. 207–8. - John W. Garver, The Sino-American Alliance: Nationalist China and American
Cold War Strategy in Asia, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1997, pp. 148–66. - Bertil Lintner, The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma, Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 1990, pp. 22–57. This account of CCP-BCP ties follows
Lintner. - Zhou Degao, Wo yu zhonggong he jiangong (Me and the Chinese communists and
the Kampuchean communists), Hong Kong: Tiantu shuwu chubanshe [n.d.; 2007?]. Zhou
was an ethnic Chinese journalist who served as a key liaison between the Chinese em-
bassy and the Kampuchean Communist Party during the 1950s and 1960s. This is his
memoir. - Zhou, Wo yu zhonggong, p. 111.
- Ben Kiernan, How Pol Pot Came to Power, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004,
p. 203. - Kiernan, How Pol Pot, pp. 222–3.
- Zhou, Wo yu Zhonggong, p. 75.