Yeah also, adding to this, supporting the Pakistan military during the Bangladesh liberation war and threatening India with invasion if they entered east pakistan to stop the genocide. Like, lotta awful foreign policy choices during the cold war as a function of the sino-soviet split which only matter less now because there's no soviet side anymore.

Honestly, the invasion of Vietnam and support of Khmer Rouge should be included... along with America's support for the same. It then shows China's self-crit and divergence in policy from the US.

I think the "L" needs to be taken since if nothing else it really shows the superiority of China's FP -- they haven't bungled like that since the end of the Soviet Union.

Conveniently starts in the 80s

The 80's was 40 years ago; if it conveniently started like five or ten years ago you'd have a point, but 40 years is a gigantic period of time to have no wars. How long of a period do you require? 100?

The reason we can criticize our own leadership is because we never stopped; we can't seriously claim we're not making the mistakes of the past while continuing to do them non-stop up to the present day. Even if the person who made the pic included China's Vietnam war era, the picture would still be a damning indictment for that gigantic gap of no wars.

China didn't have a president during the 1979 invasion of Vietnam. The office was unoccupied between 1975 and 1982.

I guess a better image would show how China often doesn't care about who they sell guns and equipment to. They've armed both sides of the Kashmir conflict and have sold guns to Israel for decades. Not great. But they haven't had any formal military conflicts other than occasional intelligence gathering/trading since the 1970s.

also its ignoring a few border skirmishers between china and india and a few against vietnam