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Maybe not with US territory directly but China has been extremely aggressive in the South China Sea. Despite this being international waters, Western aligned na
by jorblumesea 6y ago
Maybe not with US territory directly but China has been extremely aggressive in the South China Sea. Despite this being international waters, Western aligned nations and US ships have been directly harassed and threatened. The Chinese island military bases are a direct move to allow area denial. They [the CCP] also export Chinese-style internet controls and ideological ideas around censorship and the acceptability of mass surveillance and targeting of dissidents. The loans given to countries by China are often neo-colonial in nature, tying African countries to China by debt.
This is definitely Soviet-Era style cold war tactics. Could be ripped out of the 60s with the names replaced.
- unishark 6y agoAre you calling Vietnam a western-aligned nation? I'd say it just looks like China versus whoever stands in their way as they invent new claims to resources in the region.
- jorblumesea 6y agoI was thinking more of the Philippines / Taiwan / Indonesia, but fair point. Vietnam has also received a fair amount of Chinese aggression despite being "socialist brothers".
- Nginx487 6y agoVietnam and China have never been "socialist brothers", and even just brothers. They are adversaries on the civilizational level, 17 big wars during the last 20 centuries, half of them for Vietnamese independence. The last armed conflict happened in 1989, when China occupied disputed islands in the South-China sea. Vietnam would side to anyone against China (source: I live here)
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- Nginx487 6y agoVietnam at this time clearly an ally of the US and other Western countries, against China of course. There was a plan to create a naval base in Cam Rahn, but new US administration cancelled this.