🇻🇳 The recent White Paper of the Vietnam People’s Army, founded in December 1944 by the legendary General Võ Nguyên Giáp, shows that their Long March is not yet ended. Whilst acknowledging the help given to them in the Second and Third Indo China Wars by the Soviet Red Army, yesterday’s friends are, of course, often forgotten if circumstances dictate otherwise.

Today’s circumstances are that Chinese economic and diplomatic advances through Laos and Cambodia present a threat, real or imagined, to Vietnam and Chinese adventurism in the East (South China) Sea is a direct threat not only to Vietnam but a challenge to her very existence and it is one that Vietnam’s White Paper directly addresses.

Vietnam and countries contiguous to it need a further American-inspired war like they need a hole in the head 🌀

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🪼 The U.S. has naval and more general economic plans to contain and confront China by upending both its mercantilist and neomercantilist policies.

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