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China didn't have a president during the 1979 invasion of Vietnam. The office was unoccupied between 1975 and 1982.
I guess a better image would show how China often doesn't care about who they sell guns and equipment to. They've armed both sides of the Kashmir conflict and have sold guns to Israel for decades. Not great. But they haven't had any formal military conflicts other than occasional intelligence gathering/trading since the 1970s.
The PLA didn't fully pull out of Vietnam until the 90s
Yeah, the other problem with the graphic is that the president of China isn't 1:1 with the president of the US. Like, the president isn't necessarily the commander in chief of the PLA. Not that I'll pretend to know the ins and outs of who was chairman of the party, president, chairman of the military commision, and who had what de jure power and who had what de facto power for each period in PRC history. (but I'll definitely listen if someone has knowledge to drop!) I know there's the model of looking at the different generations of leadership that can be useful. Excuse the wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_Chinese_leadership
Yeah but Deng was running the show so the L is his, he was the one who contacted Jimmy Carter to tell him he was gonna do it too, Carter advised him not to but said the US wouldn't raise a stink.
I remember reading how he made it so the position he occupied had a bunch of powers concentrated in it so that he was for all intents and purposes the leader of the CPC.