Yes, I’m surprised they didn’t use Obama’s time in office to flex their muscles more.
If there’s one topic that’s still “strictly taboo”, that is Chinese intervention in Vietnam in the early 1950s.
What the hell...everyone else was doing it. Why not China. At least they list in the neighborhood.
The French were furious when the Americans had the ceasefire in Korea in 1953; they were fighting the Indochina War at our request (they knew after WWII they didn’t have the military strength or political will to do so), so we armed them to the teeth (including loaning them as aircraft carrier) and pushed them in. When the war in Korea petered out, the French started seeing loads of captured American weapons from Korea in the hands of the Viet Minh, as well as Red Chinese advisors (especially for anti-aircraft units, which proved the undoing of the French).