How did Chinese entry into Vietnam conflict change the war??

why was it that the Chinese choose to send combatbrigades into Northern Vietnam to support the NVA?

How was LBJ reacted??
 
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Are you trying to prove Hendryk's point about DBWIs?

Anyway, Uncle Ho freaks, LBJ parties and the Kremlin screams loud enough to be heard in Hanoi.
 

The Sandman

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why was it that the Chinese choose to send combatbrigades into Northern Vietnam to support the NVA?

How was LBJ reacted??

He didn't, because in 1979 he'd been dead for six years.

And the Chinese didn't come in so much to support the NVA (given that the war was over) as to try to deal with what they saw as a Soviet attempt at encirclement and take punitive action for the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.

And the Chinese didn't do all that well.
 
According wikipedia:

China provided material and technical support to the Vietnamese communists worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Chinese-supplied rice allowed North Vietnam to pull military-age men from the paddies and imposed a universal draft beginning in 1960. In the summer of 1962, Mao Zedong agreed to supply Hanoi with 90,000 rifles and guns free of charge. Starting in 1965, China sent anti-aircraft units and engineering battalions to North Vietnam to repair the damage caused by American bombing, rebuild roads and railroads, and to perform other engineering works. This freed North Vietnamese army units for combat in the South. Between 1965 and 1970, over 320,000 Chinese soldiers served in North Vietnam. The peak was in 1967, when 170,000 were stationed there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#People.27s_Republic_of_China

So the Peoples' Republic of China did enter the Vietnam War in the OTL.

What sort of involvement are you thinking about and when? LBJ was president from November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969.

By the mid 1960s, the American public support for the war was lagging and LBJ was dealing with a "credibility gap".

LBJ already believed in the "Domino Theory." I don't believe that LBJ could make nuclear threats to the Chinese like Truman did during the Korean War. Because of lagging public support for the war effort, I don't believe that Johnson could have increased troop levels further or could have provoked war with the Peoples' Republic of China.
 

The Sandman

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In other words, the PRC attempted to out-bribe the USSR in Vietnam. It didn't work. Hence the support for the Khmer Rouge, and then the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979.
 
Hasn't China also historically looked at Vietnam as a renegade province? Isn't it considered in China to be the province of An Nam for "Pacified South"? The PRC provided aide to help the Vietnamese expel the French and then the United States. But wouldn't the Vietnamese have feared increased PRC involvement as a PRC attempt to take over the country or absorb it into the PRC?
 
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