Zhang Xiaoming, "China's 1979 War with Vietnam: A ReassessmentАрхівавана 20 жніўня 2016.", China Quarterly, Issue no. 184 (December 2005, pp. 851–874. Actually are thought to have been 200,000 with 400 – 550 tanks. Zhang writes that: "Existing scholarship tends towards an estimate of as many as 25,000 PLA killed in action and another 37,000 wounded. Recently available Chinese sources categorize the PLA’s losses as 6,594 dead and some 21,000 injured, giving a total of 24,000 casualties from an invasion force of 200,000.
Zhang Xiaoming, "China's 1979 War with Vietnam: A ReassessmentАрхівавана 20 жніўня 2016.", China Quarterly, Issue no. 184 (December 2005, pp. 851–874. Actually are thought to have been 200,000 with 400 – 550 tanks. Zhang writes that: "Existing scholarship tends towards an estimate of as many as 25,000 PLA killed in action and another 37,000 wounded. Recently available Chinese sources categorize the PLA’s losses as 6,594 dead and some 21,000 injured, giving a total of 24,000 casualties from an invasion force of 200,000.
