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Vietnam does not have the luxury of treating China as a permanent enemy. Once China gets a high GDP per capita, the Vietnamese, Japanese, Koreans will compete to kiss China's bumbum, just like ancient times.

Vietnam has been a Chinese province for 1,200 years and 800 years as a tributary vassal until French took over. The past 100 years is an aberration in history. US doesn't offer enough to get Vietnam to fully align with US and piss off China....Vietnam tried with Soviet Union and got slapped.

Overbom said:

The Economist taking a victory lap

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It’s because everyone knows that no matter what Germany says they’ll be on their knees begging for Chinese money. You can let them have the PR win.

it’s the exact same thing with India.

Stryker said:

Vietnam is to China what Poland is to Russia. A foul mouthed toxic younger sibling moaning about past grievances. The difference here is that Russia being weaker economically leads to Poland being more open and direct in their belligerence and toxicity while China being a superpower compels Vietnam to moan and bitch about in silence without affecting any actual policies be it economic, political or military that threaten China's position. As long as that balance is maintained, China has nothing to worry about.

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Poland ideologically strong country. they dont care about economics atleast in government. Thats why there stance need respect . while countries like Vietnam and India will trade and oppose simultaneously.

Overbom said:

The Economist taking a victory lap

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Annalena Baerbock made clear that any change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait would be unacceptable.

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She said that she intended to underline with her visit the European view that a change to the status quo in the strait, let alone a military escalation, would be unacceptable.

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This is repeated quite often by European leaders and bureaucrats, but I wonder if Taiwan is the first to change the status quo, for example, under pressure from the US, declare independence, will our European vassals keep their word and condemn Taiwan!?

baykalov said:

This is repeated quite often by European leaders and bureaucrats, but I wonder if Taiwan is the first to change the status quo, for example, under pressure from the US, declare independence, will our European vassals keep their word and condemn Taiwan!?

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Empty words. What the hell can they do about it?

BlackWindMnt said:

Yo you viet guys, sorry we killed millions of your people. But did you know we need you to be afraid of China. So you can become our Asian Ukraine, uuh I mean huge economic partner.

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It's not even hidden at this stage - pretty much all dictatorships, banana republics, etc. are "partners" or "allies" of the US as long as they are against China. Democracy matters not at all, neither does human rights - you just have to be against China and the US will elevate you to "ally of the free world."

azn_cyniq said:

I can see where you're coming from, but at least Poland has Chopin and Curie, who are admired around the globe. I can't think of a single thing about Vietnam that Chinese people admire.

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Pho?

Chevalier said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646959955294191617

Brazil is slowly becoming to the U.S. what Anglo stenographers said of India regarding China; now all Brazil needs are missiles and ABM shields and ICBMs targeting the Anglo Americans. They can even call their missiles the “America killer” as nationalistic Indians said of their

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regarding China.

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Brazilian agricultural official Paulo Teixeira reacts to the playing of "Novo Tempo" at Lula's welcome ceremony.

Temstar said:

Apparently Blinken asked CPV secretary general Nguyen to pass on a message from him to CPC.
Perhaps he think if he visit Vietnam four more times and get them to pass on four more messages he can collect five yellow stars and summon China, dragon ball style.

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The Americans must not think highly of the sovereign nation of Vietnam, treating it like an errand boy.
Anglos know what they have to do to restore dialogue with China, because china was nice enough to give them a list, two of them in fact, detailing work that the anglos must do beforehand. No completion, no contact and dedollarisartion continues steady as she goes.

luminary said:

UAE and BRICS+?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647022544422072321

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pompeo gloated a little too quickly re the supposed demise of BRICS.

luminary said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646984951592542208

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history 101

luminary said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647010273885138944

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When a corpse king is on the throne, the court eunuchs rule, down to wanting access to nuclear weapons. This isn’t about Biden
having a senior moment and sending nukes to Russia or China, it’s about court eunuchs like blinken, cotton er al wanting influence and access over nukes.

sndef888 said:

The cold treatment is completely expected after CPV recently destroyed its pro-America faction.

It's funny how reddit is completely oblivious to what happened and is still singing the "vietnam hates china/vietnam could be a great partner/we should use vietnam to replace china for cheap labour" bullshit

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Reddiots think reality is like a game of Medieval 2: Total War

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This wouldn’t have bothered the Americans if they were the biggest economy on the planet but by attempting to isolate and contain China, they are turning themselves into the world ‘s biggest east Germany stasi state.

real recognises real