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1988: Johnson South Reef Skirmish
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Johnson South Reef Skirmish
On 14 March 1988, a naval battle was fought between the
Vietnam People's Navy and the
People's Liberation Army Navy within the
Spratly Islands. The battle saw at least 64 Vietnamese soldiers killed and three Vietnamese naval vessels lost.
[39] The battle resulted in Chinese control over the Johnson South Reef. Five other reefs in the Spratly Islands were also occupied by China in the same year.
Aftermath
During the five-year period from 1984 to 1989, the Chinese had fired over 2 million artillery rounds in Hà Giang Province, mainly in the area of 20 square kilometres (7.7 sq mi) of Thanh Thủy and Thạnh Đức Communes. The situation was quiet at the town of
Hà Giang, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) south of the battle sites, without any considerable barrage.
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From April 1987, the PLA began to scale down their military operations, yet still routinely patrolled the Laoshan and Zheyinshan areas. From April 1987 to October 1989, they conducted only 11 attacks, mostly artillery strikes. By 1992, China had formally pulled out its troops from Laoshan and Zheyinshan.
[11] The withdrawal had been gradually carried out since 1989. Atop Laoshan, the Chinese built concrete bunkers and a memorial after the conflict. Only earthen structures remained on the Vietnamese sector, which has been delineated and returned to Vietnam under the 2009 Border Agreement between the two countries.
[40] China and Vietnam negotiated the normalization of their relations in a secretive summit in
Chengdu in September 1990 and officially normalized ties in November 1991.
Thousands of people from both sides were killed in these border clashes. At the military cemetery in Vị Xuyên, there are more than 1,600 graves of Vietnamese soldiers killed during the conflict.
[41][10] Vietnam acknowledged 4,000 killed and 9,000 wounded in the area between 1984 and 1989.
[4] The Chinese confirmed their corresponding casualty figure as 4,100, including over 2,000 war dead.
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