XianYe is stupidly parroting his indoctrination. Against both India and Vietnam, China struck in a surprise action using large number of troops at a time when the elite divisions of both India and Vietnam military were busy elsewhere - India on the western borders with Pakistan, and Vietnam in Cambodia. In the first skirmish in the 1962 war, 50 Indian soldiers fought 1000 Chinese soldiers at Yumtso La, and won the fight with 25 Indian deaths against 33 Chinese ones. Only 24,000 Indian troops fought that war, and a few hundred troops died on either side. The Chinese used far greater numbers of elite troops in the surprise attack. The threat of US intervention made the Chinese declare a ceasefire and withdraw.
