Mao’s China · BATTLE SITE ·
Zhenbao Island incident (1969)
On the Mao’s China map as “Zhenbao Island”
2 and 15 Mar 1969 — Chinese troops ambush a Soviet patrol on a disputed island in the Ussuri; Soviet forces strike back with tanks and rocket artillery, and dozens die on each side. That summer a Soviet diplomat asked an American official how Washington would react to a strike on China’s nuclear sites.
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- Sino-Soviet split and Nixon in China (chapter 11 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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