China–Vietnam relations

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Relations between Vietnam and China (Chinese: 中越关系, pinyin: Zhōng Yuè Guān Xì; Vietnamese: Quan hệ Việt–Trung) have been extensive for millennia, with Northern Vietnam especially under heavy Sinosphere influence during historical times. Despite their Sinospheric and socialist background, centuries of conquest by modern China's imperial predecessors as well as modern-day tensions have made relations occasionally wary. The modern relationship has been marked with extensive economic, political and cultural ties, as well as territorial disputes in the South China Sea. China and Vietnam have lengthy historical connections, including nearly a thousand years during which Vietnam was a dependency of China. Vietnam emerged from the disintegration of China's Tang dynasty in the 900s. Subsequently, China supported the Trần dynasty while the Ming dynasty established a tributary relationship with Vietnam. In 1884, after Chinese defeat in the Sino-French War, Vietnam under the Nguyễn dynasty became a...

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