Editing Foreign relations of Vietnam (section)

==History==
===Feudal Vietnam===
Vietnam has a history stretching back more than 20,000 years. In its early history, Vietnam tried to maintain good relations with its neighbours. From the [[Hồng Bàng dynasty]] to many feudal dynasties like the [[Ngô dynasty|Ngô]], [[Đinh dynasty|Đinh]], [[Early Lê dynasty|Early Lê]], [[Lý dynasty|Lý]], [[Trần dynasty|Trần]], [[Later Lê dynasty|Later Lê]], [[Tây Sơn dynasty|Tây Sơn]] and [[Nguyễn dynasty|Nguyễn]], Vietnam's main diplomatic relationships were with neighboring Imperial China, [[Champa|Kingdom of Champa]], [[Khmer Empire]], [[Lan Xang|Lan Xang kingdom]] and [[Siam]]. Later trading relationship were established with European Countries (such as through the [[Dutch East India Company]]) and [[Japan]].

===Post-World War II===
+ Period 1945-1946: After the surrender of Japan, Both British and Chinese [[Kuomintang]] armies came into Vietnam territory to take the Japanese imperial army out of Indochina. The government of [[North Vietnam|Democratic Republic of Vietnam]] decided to have the peace agreement with [[Chiang Kai-shek]] of Kuomintang that stationed in the north Vietnam to let them pay attention to fight the French in the south. After that, Vietnam signed the peace treaty with France in 6/3/1946.<br />
+ Period 1947-1954 : Vietnam started to expand their foreign relation with the other countries in the world. In January, 1950, the [[China-Vietnam relations|People's Republic of China]] and the [[Russia-Vietnam relations|Soviet Union]] were the first two countries to recognize the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.<ref name=zhai_qiang>Zhai, Qiang. China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950–1975. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000</ref> Later, alliances were formed with Cambodia and Laos to make anti-French campaigns, building the friendship with the anti-colonial countries such as [[Thailand]], [[Myanmar]], [[Indonesia]] and [[India]].

===Cold War Era===
====Vietnam War====
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During the [[Vietnam War]] (1959–1975), [[North Vietnam]] balanced relations with its two major allies, the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[People's Republic of China]].

In 1964, [[Zhou Enlai]], worried about the escalation of U.S. forces in South Vietnam, made an informal agreement with the North. The agreement stipulated that if U.S. and [[South Vietnamese]] forces invaded North Vietnam, the Chinese would respond by loaning pilots to the North. During the invasion, [[Mao Zedong]] failed to send as many trained pilots as he promised. As a result, the North became more reliant on the [[Soviet Union]] for its defense.<ref name=zhai_qiang/>

[[File:Vladimir Putin in Vietnam 1-2 March 2001-23.jpg|thumb|left|President [[Vladimir Putin]] attending a traditional get-together of [[Vietnamese people in Russia|Vietnamese graduates]] of Soviet and Russian universities and colleges, March 2001]]
By 1975, tension began to grow as Beijing increasingly viewed [[Vietnam]] as a potential Soviet instrument to encircle China. Meanwhile, Beijing's increasing support for [[Cambodia]]'s [[Khmer Rouge]] sparked Vietnamese suspicions of China's motives.

Vietnamese-Chinese relations deteriorated significantly after [[Hanoi]] instituted a ban in March 1978 on private trade, a move that particularly affected the Sino-Vietnamese sector of the population. Following Vietnam's [[Cambodian-Vietnamese War|December 1978 invasion of Cambodia]], China launched a retaliatory invasion of Vietnam's northern border region. Faced with severance of Chinese aid and strained international relations, Vietnam established even closer ties with the Soviet Union and its allies in the [[Comecon]] member states. Throughout the 1980s, Vietnam received nearly US$3&nbsp;billion a year in economic and military aid from the Soviet Union and conducted most of its trade with the U.S.S.R. and Comecon countries. Soviet and [[Eastern bloc]] economic aid, however, ceased after the breakup of the Soviet Union.