Posted on 06/13/2005 5:25:00 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Pentagon is doing its own diplomacy now.
Ping!
weird.
Thanks for the ping.
I guaranty you that Vietnam is not trying to encircle China. It is merely trying to avoid being gobbled up by it.
The more you think about it, the more it looks like this may be the final shoe to fall in the Vietnam War.
The Chinese and Vietnames already went to war once in the seventies: this is nothing new. The Vietnamese don't trust the Chinese, and with good reason.
Exactly, and now that China needs Vietnam's oil, you can bet the Vietnamese are more worried about their neighbor.
I really want to know what you think about this.
Why would you want to line yourself up with someone that you had beat--albeit with help from the Media, McCain, Kerry and Congress?
The Chinese and Vietnamese have despised each other for 3,000 years. Interestingly for the most part the Chinese have never been able to decisively beat them.
What I meant was that U.S. is encircling China, by enlisting Viet Nam.
That's probably what the Chinese think. I'm not sure I even agree with that though. The US is trying to block China's expansion into surrounding territories. That's not quite the same as encircling them. The idea of encircling implies that we have aggressive intentions, which we don't.
The Chinese have always been the bankers, merchants and related business owners of Asia. Because of this trait, they've always been resented by other Asians.
Either way, China would not get what it wants, which is fine with me.:-)
China should be added to Bush's axis of evil IMHO...
Agreed. There is a lot of work to be done here by the American diplomats and military, though. It's just a question of whether the peacenik diplomats can hold their noses and get the job done, knowing that the whole purpose of this effort on their part will be to improve the US military strategy vis a vis China.
In case of Viet Nam, China repeatedly tried to conquer them. Part of N. Viet Nam was sometimes under Chinese control during their history.
By adding N. Korea, he came about as close as he could come to doing that.
Heck, even adding NK caused a leftist conniption.
Why don't we just send Kerry, he's pretty tight with those guys.
"Why don't we just send Kerry, he's pretty tight with those guys."
Hmmm, good idea!
The Chinese area of Saigon, Cholon, was a thriving community back then also. Our headquarters was there, only spent a week in a block of French Colonial small hotels that we used.
True...but in all honesty, I don't think even the Chinese are all that thrilled with Kim Jong-Il lately...
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