“If China won’t live up to its obligations as a good global citizen, then maybe its largest market, the U.S., can remind China that two can play at this game.”
I wouldn’t count on the US reminding China of anything except what spineless suck-ups many in our government have become when it relates to trade, or most anything related to China. They are much too busy portraying all our wonderful trading partners as upstanding, responsible world citizens to acknowledge how they actually behave (in order to justify even more “free trade” agreements trading US jobs and technology for cheap foreign labor).
IMHO keep out of the fight between Vietnam and China. How soon we forget how the Vietmanese treated our POW, MIA and their arrogance after we pulled out of Vietnam. Let the two commie nations fight it out, while we be like the monkey on the rock watching two lions fight. Some freepers forget about Vietnam’s outstanding international adherence to the Geneva Convention, religious and human rights, ethnic cleansing of the Hmongs and attacking ethnic Chinese in Vietnam when they had a spat with mainland China in 1979, boat people and etc, etc, etc. The Vietcong were bad as the Al Qaida when dealing with villages that did not submit to them. Kill village chief after they rape his daughter, then kill the man, cut off his pecker and stick it in his mouth, and hang his body near the trail so the US and South Vietmanese forces can see it as they recapture the village. Yeah, they are real humanitarians.