William Hung
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But something just as equally revolting to north Vietnamese mind, if not more, happened in that same year. In that same year, 7-8 months prior to 1972 Christmas bombings, the so-called “comrade” China had openly flaunted to the whole world their new-found friendship with the US. Closed door secret negotiations preceded this for years prior to this 1972 PDA.
Mao shaking hands with Nixon in 1972:
And the China-US relationship just gets better and better right into the 1980s.
Given the fact that China had never wanted the two VN to reunite and had tried to jeopardize it, and given that China then later became friends with the US while the US-VN war was still waging on ferociously, it is amusing to see Chinese members here trying to talk about Vietnam betraying China and how Vietnam being ungrateful, etc. Also amusing how some Chinese members here still questioning why VN would later normalize its relation with the US “who once bombed” us and why not just become closer to China, while ignoring the fact that China and the US were actually together, as friends, during one of the fiercest years of bombing. I don’t know if they are just ignorant of history, or just have no shame in them. Well at least some other Chinese members can now begin to read the Vietnamese perspective.
Oh gotta go. Will post proper articles next time I’m free.
Mao shaking hands with Nixon in 1972:
And the China-US relationship just gets better and better right into the 1980s.
Given the fact that China had never wanted the two VN to reunite and had tried to jeopardize it, and given that China then later became friends with the US while the US-VN war was still waging on ferociously, it is amusing to see Chinese members here trying to talk about Vietnam betraying China and how Vietnam being ungrateful, etc. Also amusing how some Chinese members here still questioning why VN would later normalize its relation with the US “who once bombed” us and why not just become closer to China, while ignoring the fact that China and the US were actually together, as friends, during one of the fiercest years of bombing. I don’t know if they are just ignorant of history, or just have no shame in them. Well at least some other Chinese members can now begin to read the Vietnamese perspective.
Oh gotta go. Will post proper articles next time I’m free.
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