Why China always invade Vietnam (not Laos, Myanmar, Mongolia instead) from the past thousand years to now?
I'm researching history of Southeast Asian and I identify that the relationship between those countries were in trouble many times, and eventually war (but VN still remained its territory for most occurred war) . Why China concentrated to take VN even though Chinese couldn't control the little country. Because of Vietnamese strategic location, right? Or other significant reasons, please help me. Thanks a lot
luck for Laos, Myanmar, or Thailand, etc since if China wanted to invade them, they had to defeat Vietnam first. Vietnam is like a door to get to South East Asian from China, so the Chinese have to open the door if they want to get in the house. Secondly, in the ancient time, the military of Vietnam was the strongest in South East Asia, even if the Chinese found another road to invade those countries, they would face a threat from the invasion of Vietnam itself! Vietnam origin was quite small but like China, they also invaded small countries around to be like nowadays(Champa, a part of Cambodia...). Ly Thuong Kiet was successful when attacking China and if Quang Trung had lived longer, the world even could have witnessed an Asian Napoleon? In other words, only Vietnam in region was a threat to China, so they really want to destroy that threat. The case of Mongolia is different since there is nothing to occupy except for dessert so China did not try their best to invade.
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