Biden’s Vietnam embrace repeats past US mistakes
Biden’s Vietnam embrace repeats past US mistakes
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Biden’s Vietnam embrace repeats past US mistakes
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I mean, I largely agree with the facts of the article, but I don't see what part is a "mistake." If you've decided to play the superpower game, drawing countries into your orbit seems like the correct strategy, as does prioritizing ones that have ties to other powerful countries that you would like to undercut.
If they think that "attempting to remain a superpower" is a mistake in and of itself, then it's not a repeat, it's just one continuous mistake that started last century.
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In March 2015, retired US diplomat and Harvard professor Robert Blackwill wrote a policy paper that has become an unofficial playbook for today’s American actions in Asia.
It starts with a remarkable but unsurprising premise: “The United States has consistently pursued a grand strategy focused on acquiring and maintaining pre-eminent power over various rivals, first on the North American continent, then in the Western hemisphere, and finally globally.”
The Blackwell paper argues that the US must “protect its systemic primacy” and spells out how to do it in Asia.
we are so the bad guys
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retired US diplomat and Harvard professor Robert Blackwill wrote a policy paper that has become an unofficial playbook for today’s American actions in Asia.
OR this is Chinese propaganda falsely making a big deal about a policy paper from a former Bush official whose been out of government service for two decades and no one actually listens to.
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I think it's the aggressive superpower neighbor of theirs releasing official maps that claim Vietnamese waters as their own doing that you shameless China apologist.
China essentially claims all of Asia that isn't India or Russia, including Japan. And if Putin falls I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to sneak some bits off Russia.
China claims Vietnam? Laos? Singapore? Myanmar? Mongolia? Pakistan??
You're kind of right if by China, you mean the Republic of China, they have some pretty wild territorial claims
Write a letter to the editor about it