الحرب الصينية-الفرنسية 1883-1885

الملخص EN

France sought to control the southern and central regions of Vietnam to annex the northern part of it, especially after Gul Ferry formed his first government in September 1980, taking on the growing influence of the Chinese black flags in northern Vietnam and seeking to secure the French trade route through that region to China's southern markets are a pretext to impose French control over it.

This is what China rejected, which led to the outbreak of war between them