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The PAVN was actually better equipped than the PLA that went to war against Vietnam in '79. Some of the PLA units even used old, obsolete ammunition from the Korean War that would jam up their rifles or RPG rounds that wouldn't go off. In order to not escalate the conflict, the PLA didn't even deploy air assets to support their ground troops. The Chinese air force never even flew sorties over Vietnam....

Comparison between a PLA infantry platoon and a PAVN defensive platoon during the Sino-Vietnam war in 1979. Per PLA table of organization and equipment, Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPGs) were designated as company-level assets.




French founders went from 3.5% of my Y Combinator batch to 20% of the latest one. In 2 years. Same country. 70 million people. A 6x jump in the French share in two years. This isn't luck. The French education system produces generalists with brutally strong hard science foundations (maths, physics, engineering) who can drop into any new field and rebuild it from first principles. A growing number of them have understood one thing: if you want to build something big, you come to the US and you build it here. Two things I'd tell anyone French and talented reading this: Apply to YC. Seriously. There is no downside. Worst case you lose an afternoon on the application. Best case it changes your life. And you can always say no. It has never been easier to turn an idea into a real company. That's exactly what I'm building with @NanoCorpHQ : you describe the company you want, and you launch it from a single prompt. The barrier to building used to be technical. Now it's just agency.