Ep. 167 | Zhou Enlai (Part 7)
The China History Podcast
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The Great Leap and Famine
After the Gulf at Tongan incident on August 2nd and 3rd 1964 Joe called for mass protests in China to vent against the US. The same deal with the Korean war would be applied here if the US goes into Vietnam and starts something China is gonna come in with a vengeance throughout 1965. With Operation Rolling Thunder going on American combat troops landing at Dennan by years end there were more than 200,000 on the way Joe did everything in his formidable power to gear China up for this Vietnam war. Chinese had troops and engineers working alongside the Vietnamese doing all kinds of civil construction work. Every now and then the US Air Force would encroach on Chinese airspace and would be met
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