China got it’s butt kicked in 79’.
China took more casualties than they ever planned, but even more importantly, they were outsmarted.
I think over the course of the past two hundred years China has had its butt kicked by just about any foreign power it tried to take on.
In a non-scientific poll I think that includes France, Britain, the US, Japan, India, Vietnam and maybe Russia.
The question has to be asked given China’s utterly lamentable record at fighting foreigners, even tiny nations like Vietnam just recovering from four decades of war, why on earth do the Chinese think they could win this time?