re: #504 Boondock St. Bender

didn’t the chinese invade vietnam sometime in the eighties?

1979, to be exact. The Chinese did not do well in that war. The Vietnamese army was battle hardened, while the Chinese army had not fought a major war since Korea. Moreover, its troops were local forces from the south, not the better troops who were on the Soviet border. The war ultimately ended indecisively, but Vietnam has not forgotten it.