The World - News from Feb. 21, 1985
China said its troops are stepping up their state of alert along the Vietnamese border because Hanoi has turned a “deaf ear” to Peking’s warnings to halt provocations across the frontier. President Li Xiannian, in a Lunar New Year speech in Peking, said Chinese border forces have been advised to “be in combat readiness to repulse the aggressors.” Western diplomats believe Peking’s bellicose language may be a warning of possible action against Vietnam in support of Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge rebels fighting Hanoi’s occupation force in Cambodia.
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