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By using race ? Did the US broadcast 'white people unite' ?
Here is a snippet of what other Asian countries had to deal with regarding China...
Commanding Heights : Lee Kuan Yew | on PBS
The 'you' here is China. The full meeting with Deng is recalled in Lee's book...
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story - 1965-2000: Lee Kuan Yew: 9780060197766: Amazon.com: Books
Chapter 37. Deng Xiaoping's China
China was openly racial and racist during those Cold War years in Asia, urging insurrection by Chinese who were citizens not of China but of those other Asian countries, both overt and covert insurrections. It is one thing to appeal to someone's ideological curiosity, but it is base and crass to appeal to racism.
When Lee said to Deng, this...
The 'they' composed of the other Asian countries fed up with China exporting Chinese racism in their lands and the 'you' is China, represented by Deng at that time. They, as in the other Asian countries, wanted a unified front to literally fight China if necessary.
Did the US simply barged into these countries' backyards ? No. They actually invited US in, pal. China exhorting oversea Chinese to betray their countries of citizenship is not fueling tensions, but US presence in those countries by invitations -- is ? Lee's conversation with Deng occurred in 1978, but according to Lee, those Asian countries wanted to fight China, physically if necessary, WHILE THE VIETNAM WAR WAS STILL GOING. No one knew how the VN War would turn out, but to them, it was irrelevant because China must be resisted no matter the outcome of the VN War.
If the US is in Asia today, it was because those Asian countries still have memories of what China wanted and did, fool.
If our government uses the tactic, you can't then criticize China for taking it a step further. In any case, I think you are overstating its effect. People are not going to take up arms against the country they happily live in at the behest of their native government, least of all a communist one. There were no Chinese insurrections anywhere, so at the end of the day the broadcasts amounted to nothing but annoying propaganda.
And you are wrong, in the greater scheme of things. Even Russia and China admitted -- finally -- that if the US was not involved in SE Asia, things would have gone much better for the Soviet Union and China, but worse for the people there.
Worse than 3 million dead? I doubt it.
Here are a couple facts for you to chew over:
- The US wanted independence for Indochina, that mean Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia.
- It was the Viet Minh who invited France back into Viet Nam.
Now see if you reconcile those facts into whatever feeble knowledge you have about the VN War.
Why is any of this our business? Why should America care who is in charge of Vietnam? As as I'm concerned, we set out to stop the spread of communism to the South and we FAILED.
Yes, you should.
Occupy Washington DC and I will. That's where the real threat to my liberty is.