The scale of China’s defeat stunned Deng, and historians often credit the PLA’s miserable performance with forcing him to take a hard look at China’s moribund Maoist system. Within months of the war’s end, indeed, Deng initiated the reforms that have since transformed his country.
那场溃败震惊了邓小平，历史学家痛批人民解放军在战场上的软弱无能，强烈要求邓深刻反思中国奄奄一息的毛泽东主义体制。而在战争结束几个月后，邓小平也的确启动了改革，中国自始发生了天翻地覆的变化。