211 "the vast economic power enjoyed by the Chinese coupled with their more or less separate administrative structure and essentially alien outlooks had turned the Chinese community in Vietnam into virtually a state within a state that no Vietnamese government could tolerate without serious misgivings about its long-term implications."
216 "On the night of March 23 [1978] a 30,000-man Para security force made up of police, Party cadres, and students was mobilized and dispatched to cordon off the entire Cholon [Chinese] section of Ho Chi Minh City. … the special force searched and ransacked every house and shop in the district, and confiscated goods and valuables. … Similar raids were conducted almost simultaneously in other parts of the country,"
218 " these latest developments [in 1978] certainly dashed all the hopes of the Chinese community for a peaceful and tolerable life in Vietnam."
219 "95 percent of the refugees crossing the Sino-Vietnamese border in 1978 were Chinese from the long socialized northern part of Vietnam [and] nearly 85 percent of the boat people escaping the south in 1978 were ethnic Chinese clearly indicated that the Chinese residents in Vietnam had indeed been driven into a state of dire distress and utter despair as a result of a systematic, extremely harsh anti-Chinese campaign throughout the country."