Posted on 03/26/2024 8:37:48 PM PDT by McGruff
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced one of his longest-serving officials, Oleksiy Danilov, who had earlier criticized a Chinese peace plan.
Danilov’s firing came after he expressively criticized Chinese Special Representative for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui, as well as a Chinese peace initiative, on air during a Ukrainian national telethon.
“As for Li Hui, I want to remind everyone: No one will decide our fate but us,” Danilov said on March 19. “I don’t understand who can trade our territories, our lands like that. Because some Hui, I’m sorry, or whatever his last name is, or someone else think they should decide it.”
After a recent visit to Europe Li said that while Kyiv and Moscow remained far apart, “in the end they all agree that the war must be resolved through negotiations rather than guns,”
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This could be entertaining.
Yeah, I’m sure the Chinese aren’t making a list, and checking it twice.
Is this the Uke Intelligence muckity muck who was taking credit for all of the previous terrorist bombings and political murders?
This article is confusing. Hui mentions a peace agreement and Danilov gets pissed off and criticizes that and then Zelensky fires Danilov for disagreeing with Hui?
Did I miss something?
Jeez, even Zelensky is kowtowing to the Chinese. What are Zelensky and his crew of corrupt underlings getting from the ChiComs.
Good grief. That doesn’t sound like a fireable offense. Zelvis must be laundering Chinese money too.
I think Zelenskyy is getting paranoid. He’s taking actions to try to extinguish any hint of something that might diminish his authority and develop into a coup.
In response to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, China launched the Resist America, Aid Vietnam campaign.[8]: 29 The campaign themes denounced U.S. imperialism and promoted Vietnamese resistance.[8]: 29 Local communist party cadre organized mass meetings and street demonstrations, and millions of people across the country marched in support of the campaign between February 9 and February 11, 1965.[8]: 29 The communist party expanded the campaign into cultural media such as film and photography exhibitions, singing contests, and street performances.[8]: 29
In April 1965, the U.S. Operation Rolling Thunder prompted the communist party to accelerate war preparations in major cities, particularly air defense and citizen militia drills.[8]: 30 The party began emphasizing that, in addition the preparing for the risk of U.S. bombing of China, the Chinese people should be prepared to handle the worst-case scenario scenario of having to fight on Chinese soil.[8]: 30
To counter U.S. overwhelming airstrikes, Ho requested Chinese Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) units in a meeting with Mao in May 1965. In response, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces began flowing into North Vietnam in July 1965 to help defend Hanoi and its major transportation systems.[7]: 217 The total number of Chinese troops in North Vietnam between June 1965 and March 1968 amounted to over 320,000.[2]: 135 “The peak year was 1967 when 170,000 Chinese soldiers were present.”[2]: 135 In the same year the PLA and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) & Viet Cong (VC) made an agreement under which the PLA provided the PAVN/VC with 5,670 sets of uniforms, 5,670 pairs of shoes, 567 tons of rice, 20.7 tons of salt, 55.2 tons of meat, 20.7 tons of fish, 20.7 tons of sesame and peanuts, 20.7 tons of beans, 20.7 tons of lard, 6.9 tons of soy sauce, 20,7 tons of white sugar, 8,000 toothbrushes, 11,100 tubes of toothpaste, 35,300 bars of soap, and 109,000 cases of cigarettes.[2]: 135 In total, the agreement included 687 different items, covering such goods as table tennis balls, volleyballs, harmonicas, playing cards, pins, fountain pen ink, sewing needle, and vegetable seeds.[9]
Such allowed Hanoi to use its own manpower for participating in battles in the South and maintaining the transport and communication lines between the North and the South and played a role in deterring further American expansion of the war into the North.[3]: 378–9
The end of China’s assistanceedit
Military aid given to North Vietnam by China[3]: 379 Year Guns Artillery pieces Bullets Artillery shells Radio transmitters Telephones Tanks Planes Automobiles 1964 80,500 1,205 25,240,000 335,000 426 2,941 16 18 25 1965 220,767 4,439 114,010,000 1,800,000 2,779 9,502 ? 2 114 1966 141,531 3,362 178,120,000 1,066,000 1,568 2,235 ? ? 96 1967 146,600 3,984 147,000,000 1,363,000 2,464 2,289 26 70 435 1968 219,899 7,087 247,920,000 2,082,000 1,854 3,313 18 ? 454 1969 139,900 3,906 119,117,000 1,357,000 2,210 3,453 ? ? 162 1970 101,800 2,212 29,010,000 397,000 950 1,600 ? ? ? 1971 143,100 7,898 57,190,000 1,899,000 2,464 4,424 80 4 4,011 1972 189,000 9,238 40,000,000 2,210,000 4,370 5,905 220 14 8,758 1973 233,500 9,912 40,000,000 2,210,000 4,335 6,447 120 36 1,210 1974 164,500 6,406 30,000,000 1,390,000 5,148 4,663 80 ? 506 1975 141,800 4,880 20,600,000 965,000 2,240 2,150 ? 20 ? Total 1,922,897 64,529 1,048,207,000 17,074,000 30,808 48,922 560 164 15,771 China's supply of weapons and other military equipment to Vietnam sharply increased in 1965 compared with 1964. The amount of China's military supply fluctuated between 1965 and 1968, although the total value of material supplies remained at roughly the same level. But then in 1969–70, a sharp drop occurred, at the same time that all China's troops were pulled back. Not until 1972 would there be another significant increase in China's military delivery to Vietnam.[3]: 378 Another figure shows that “When the last Chinese troops withdrew from Vietnam in August 1973, 1,100 soldiers had lost their lives and 4,200 had been wounded.”[2]: 135
They aren’t mentioning that in his flippant response, he insulted the Chinese representative by comparing his last name with the Russian (Ukrainian too I assume) word “хуй”, which is the swear word for the male reproductive organ.
“in the end they all agree that the war must be resolved through negotiations rather than guns,”
Some day Ukraine will realize that.
Thanks Zhang Fei.
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