A part of Ha Giang Province was on the receiving end of over 2 million Chinese artillery rounds from 1984 to 1989. China still occupies three fingers of land from the 1979 conflict and that rankles the Vietnamese army.
Many Vietnamese army officers expect to die in the coming war with China but their first battle is on the home front. Earlier this year a brave party member stood up in a large meeting of the Communist Party of Vietnam and named names of senior party officials who had accepted Chinese bribes with respect to the sale of 99 year leases to Chinese interests. The army protected this brave party member from being arrested. Soon after there were protests in a number of Vietnamese cities against corruption and Chinese influence.
I’m rooting for Charlie.
China will need more Chinese
Guess the author forgot about Cuba and possible Venezuela.
World’s three remaining communist states?
I thought most of the European nations were Communist? Well, OK - technically socialist. Same thing. /s
Whatever. Soon they’ll all be Islamic.
Short of the desire to test their military tech acquired over the last 25 years, I would think China could advance their goal of hegemony through economic clout.
Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Commies against each other is good.
They’ve been fighting on and off for centuries.
3 communist states? Who’s doing the counting here?
There are at least 4:
China. Vietnam. Cuba. North Korea.
And Venezuela at this point also qualifies.
So obviously either North Korea or Cuba isn't considered communist. I wonder which one. I'm guessing the media doesn't consider Cuba to be communist since Bambi's overtures.
My wife goes to a Vietnamese nail salon on a regular basis and is friends with the owner. Apparently he is from Saigon (Ho Chi Min City) and complains about the Chinese influence in Vietnam all the time. He has told her that some of his relatives have disappeared because of their opposition to the Chinese. No way of knowing how true this is, but it definitely sounds like there is unhappiness with the Chinese over there.
This will be an excuse to drag the US in... again. By then, China will have Russia on it’s side and we’ll be stuck out in the cold. I’ve been saying for years we need to make nice with Russia but the demonrats are all over this Russia, Russia, Russia thing and playing into China’s hand. They’re determined to finish Soetoro’s game to end the US.
Ohhhh, the ironies.
The Chinese hate when I say this...
The Vietnamese kicked your butt royaly in 78-79.
As did the Indians previously.
Incoming!
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“It is across the road from an existing army base, which can be identified as a military base by the running track. Most large Chinese military bases have a running track. One thing that is different about these new buildings is that they have red roofs in a region that is mostly blue roofs, suggesting the materials ordering decision was made far to the north in Beijing. Another thing different about these buildings is that they are hard to access with small gaps between them. Which suggests they are for storage for things that won’t be accessed often, such as archives, or accessed only once – for hiding tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers prior to an attack into Vietnam.”
THAT is quite a daisy chain of conclusions based on almost nothing tangible.
these two have a long history of conflict......very long.
commies v commies....