Surely you must realize that ASEAN does not have true unity since neighbouring members have competing interests with one another such as disputed waters.
The new thing with me, oh, I don't know, You were born in Vietnam. Ok, For the Vietnamese and Chinese. My opinion, Vietnamese have reason to hate Chinese but Chinese had no reason to hate Vietnamese. You can see the answer from Chinese in here https://www.quora.com/Do-the-Chinese-really-hate-the-Vietnamese-If-yes-why Of course It also depends on each person. Like one Chinese in PDF, I forget his name, terriorts or terrain ...who always call Vietnamese as the monkey, Surely he hates Vietnamese.
For Vietnamese. This poll shows the Vietnamese's opinion about China from 200 people. You will see 53 persons who said they love China, 71 persons hat
Of course most Chinese would say never heard of a country called Vietnam. However I forget to remember the number of wars they staged against our country. I read reports how nice they treated the worst Japanese war criminals and how clean they polished the rifles of captured India army members. I would wish they treat us with similar nicety. In reality the PLA destroyed the last house, killed the last animal when withdrawing from VN at last major war.The new thing with me, oh, I don't know, You were born in Vietnam. Ok, For the Vietnamese and Chinese. My opinion, Vietnamese have reason to hate Chinese but Chinese had no reason to hate Vietnamese. You can see the answer from Chinese in here https://www.quora.com/Do-the-Chinese-really-hate-the-Vietnamese-If-yes-why Of course It also depends on each person. Like one Chinese in PDF, I forget his name, terriorts or terrain ...who always call Vietnamese as the monkey, Surely he hates Vietnamese.e them. 4 per said they love but is becoming the hater, 27 per said they is becoming the lover, 79 per who don't care, Although Chinese give their threat to attack the island in SCS.
the number of wars between VN and CN, The major reason because of their interests, It doesn't relate to hatred or not. eg: they hate Japan but can't defeat or launch a revenge toward Japan. You maybe get misunderstood between war by the hatred and war by the interests. they really want to kill all Japanese soldiers in WW2 but It cant. because they are weak at that time. Like the 731 unit experts were saved by US. they treated the worst Japanese soldiers well. It the first time I know.
Actually we shouldn't care whether they like us or not or they hate or love the japanese, that is not our business. The only thing we care is of developing a powerful army to annihilate anyone who attacks us.
You know Cambodia well, more than knowledge of one normal Vietnamese. One interesting story about Cambodian. It is they and Thailand people look down each other. One Cambodian said to me. He said: Sure, they hate Vietnamese, but when he said the Vietnamese grabbed Cambodian land in the past, Vietnamese would said: Yes, we are, If Cambodia wants to regain, Pls attack. But for the Thailand people, they would say: No, It is their historical territories. So hypocrite, Thailand also use Khmer culture to enrich their nation
Nations rise and fall, territories changing hands. Rome and Carthago could not coexist.
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The French name Indochina (that included Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) for a reason, because it 2 civilizations. Viet Nam have Chinese influence for it Chinese Buddhism, chopstick, wok cooking, chinese writting, Chinese calendar, ect.. Cambodia and Laos have Indian influence with Indian Buddhism, eat with hands, wearing sarong, mortar and pestle paste cooking, ect.... Both the Thai and the Viets took some lands from Cambodia but at the end of the day, the Cambodian will always hate more the Viets because we don't share the same culture and physically different. Cambodia will always get along better with the Thai and Laotians because they share the same Buddhism branch and also a lot of culture similarities. Every human being always love someone with similarities but hate strangers that doesn't have anything in common
I rather see we would acquire a squadron of Aegis air defense destroyers. $3b is lots of bucks. Donald Trump will give us a loan I believe. But we don't have any aircraft carrier now so how to carry the choppers at highsea? Or the Japanese is nicer than expected and deliver us with one or two carriers. Military buildup costs money. We could soon say hello to the bushido fighters of Japan. What would you buy instead?
However nobody threatens anyone with war. Unlike China that threatens PN, VN, UK and India with war in short succession.
