Well it's up to you

[BC_Programmer]

Yes... some of the soldiers were chinese; that would be the chinese forces, which were fighting on the side of the North Vietnamese.

PRC military advisors began assisting the Viet Minh in July 1950.[41] PRC weapons, expertise, and laborers transformed the Viet Minh from a guerrilla force into a regular army.[42] In September, the U.S. created a Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG) to screen French requests for aid, advise on strategy, and train Vietnamese soldiers.[43] By 1954, the U.S. had supplied 300,000 small arms and spent US$1 billion in support of the French military effort and was shouldering 80 percent of the cost of the war.[44]

It's a matter of Public record- they also had 1,446 dead and 4,200 wounded.

[Dead Reckon]

And you just trust the statistics? This is a communist country mind you, they learned many things from Soviet Russia, including how to clean up your tracks. Then again, so did most of the "Free" world, that being, propaganda.