List of wars involving the People's Republic of China

This is a list of wars involving the People's Republic of China (PRC). The PRC last fought a war in 1991 (the Third Indochina War) and has fought only in relatively minor engagements since.^[1]^: 72

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No.	War	People's Republic of China and allies	Opponents	Result
1	Chinese Civil War (1927–1949)	1927–1936 Chinese Soviet Republic (from 1931) Jiangxi Soviet (1931–1934) Chinese Communist Party Chinese Red Army 1945–1949 Yan'an Soviet People's Republic of China (1949) Chinese Communist Party People's Liberation Army	1927–1936 Republic of China Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army 1945–1949 Republic of China Kuomintang Republic of China Armed Forces	Victory Communist control of mainland China Proclamation of the People's Republic of China Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan
2	Battle of Chamdo (1950)	People's Republic of China	Tibet	Victory People's Republic of China annexes Tibet
3	Korean War (1950–1953)	North Korea China Soviet Union	South Korea United States United Kingdom Canada Turkey Australia Philippines New Zealand Thailand Ethiopia Greece France Colombia Belgium South Africa Netherlands Luxembourg	Ceasefire North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled UN military intervention and invasion of North Korea repelled Chinese-North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled DMZ established, little territorial change at the 38th parallel border, essentially uti possidetis
4	First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–1955)	PRC	ROC United States	Ceasefire PRC withdrawal, status quo ante bellum.
5	Laotian Civil War (1959–1975)	Pathet Lao North Vietnam Neutralists (1960–1962; 1963–1969) China Soviet Union	Kingdom of Laos Neutralists (1962–1966) United States South Vietnam Thailand Republic of China	Victory Establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic End of the Kingdom of Laos Insurgency by anti-communists
6	China–Burma border campaign (1960–1961)	PRC Burma	ROC	Victory Kuomintang expelled from Burma
7	Sino-Indian War (1962)	China	India	Victory Status quo ante bellum
8	Communist insurgency in Thailand (1965–1976)	Communist Party of Thailand People's Liberation Army of Thailand Federation of Farmers and Workers National Student Center of Thailand Minority ethnic groups, especially the Hmong Pathet Lao (until 1975)^[2]^[3] Malayan Communist Party^[4] Communist Party of Burma^[5] Khmer Rouge People's Republic of China (until 1976) North Vietnam (until 1976)	Thailand Royal Thai Armed Forces Thahan Phran Royal Thai Police Border Patrol Police Volunteer Defense Corps Internal Security Operations Command Thai Ultranationalist Organization Village Scouts Nawaphon Red Gaurs Kingdom of Laos (until 1975) ROC 93rd Division^[6] Malaysia^[7]^[8] Shan United Revolutionary Army^[9] Karen National Union^[10] United States CIA United States Air Force in Thailand United States Air Force Security Forces	Defeat Thai government victory
9	Nathu La and Cho La clashes (1967)	China	India	Defeat PRC withdrawal from Nathu La and Cho La
10	Sino-Soviet Border Conflict (1969)	China	Soviet Union	Defeat Status quo ante bellum
11	Vietnam War (1965–1969)	North Vietnam Viet Cong Pathet Lao Khmer Rouge China Soviet Union North Korea	United States South Vietnam South Korea Australia New Zealand Laos Cambodia Khmer Republic Thailand	Withdrawal Withdrawal of American-led forces from Indochina Communist governments took power in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia China took over Paracel Islands from South Vietnam Republic of Vietnam collapsed, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam took control of South Vietnam. South Vietnam was annexed by North Vietnam Breakdown in Sino-Vietnamese relations leading to the Sino-Vietnamese War
12	Third Indochina War (1978–1991)	China Democratic Kampuchea (until 1979/82) CGDK (after 1982) PDK FUNCINPEC KPNLF Lao royalists Hmong insurgents FULRO Thailand Supported by: United States^[11]^[12] Malaysia North Korea Romania Somalia National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (1980-1987)	Vietnam Laos People's Republic of Kampuchea (until 1989) State of Cambodia (from 1989) Supported by: Albania^[13] Bulgaria Cuba Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary India Poland Soviet Union Derg (1978–1987) PDRE (from 1987) South Yemen Grenada Communist Party of Thailand Pak Mai Supported by: Malayan Communist Party	1991 Paris Peace Accords^[14]^[15] Insurgency in Laos Removal of the Khmer Rouge from power End of the Cambodian genocide Pro-Vietnamese government installed in Cambodia China withdraws from Vietnam after 27 days of fighting Communist Party of Thailand abandons armed struggle Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia in 1989^[14] 1990 Chengdu summit leads to the normalization of relations between China and Vietnam Restoration of the House of Norodom in Cambodia Establishment of United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia join ASEAN in the late 1990s.
13	Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)	China	Vietnam	Status quo antebellum, both sides claim victory Chinese withdrawal from Vietnam Continued Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia until 1989 Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991)

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