03-10-2018, 11:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-10-2018, 11:53 AM by Cynic Hero '86.)
(03-10-2018, 10:51 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:(03-10-2018, 02:53 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: > Strange things can happen. How stable is the hold of Kim Jong-Un
> on power? Could the People's Republic of China have put pressure
> on him to make some efforts to give up a nuclear program that
> poses real dangers to China?
One of the questions that keep coming up is -- whose side will Korea
be on? We can line up Japan, Philippines and Vietnam on the side of
the West, and Laos and Cambodia on China's side. But whose side will
Korea be on?
Xenakis, You are ignorant of the actual situation. Laos and Cambodia are Vietnamese satellites not Chinese ones. The Current Cambodian Prime Minister who has effectively been dictator since the late 1990s was originally installed by Vietnam and is frequently accused of Being a Vietnamese puppet by opposition forces. The Laotian Government has a permanent grant of full military access to Vietnamese forces since the 1970s, there is no equivalent agreement with China. Also Vietnam and China have been enemies for centuries with the modern enmity restarting immediately after the end of the Vietnam war, NOT JohnX's claim that china began threatening Vietnam only after 1994 in move directed more against the latter's rapprochement with the west. In fact China and Vietnam went to full-scale war in 1979 and had medium-scale border fights between 1980 and 1990.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of...since_1945
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Laos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Cambodia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun_Sen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietn...E2%80%9390
Within the west Xenakis, you keep assuming that the boomer concept of what is and what isn't western and what constitute's being "western" would be what westerners would fight for. In fact as almost every Xer and Millie you've talked to keeps trying to explain to you; the young has nothing but contempt for the 1968er values.
