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Come on, you're more well-read than this. You know that military occupation and annexation are not the same thing.
You still haven't answered what you think the intent of the military action was. Do you claim any military confrontation is occupation?
I'd more say that the military occupation was done for the sake of confrontation (this is similar to the official Chinese line). It was a really senseless invasion, as far as I can tell (and I disagree with the Vietnamese line that the war was expansionist).
I think we can agree on that