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China accused Vietnam of posing a “grave threat” to peace in Asia and demanded that Hanoi withdraw its troops from Cambodia, halt incursions into Thailand and cease hostilities along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier. In a letter to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, China’s U.N. representative Ling Qing also expressed strong support for Thailand and for the Cambodian guerrillas fighting Vietnamese occupation forces.
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