Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious that China, which did not militarily interfere in the U.S.'s Viet Nam War, is now forced for its own safety to continue that war in order to stop Soviet-Vietnamese expansionism in Southeast Asia. The Chinese are indirectly fighting that war for us and the free world. Hans Kukenheim Vancouver...
...Peking Stalinist bureaucracy wants to take a swipe at Hanoi because it believes China must reign supreme in Southeast Asia and Vietnam is in the way. But the connection to the Sino-Soviet hostilities and the clear collusion of the Chinese invasion with impeialist aims are not a minor element. This is not a simple conflict between two workers states China is acting as the cat's paw of U.S. imperialism...
...important victory," crowed Peking, proclaiming that "the Chinese armed forces exploded the myth of invincibility of the Asian Cuba," and thus also "dealt a telling blow to the Soviet Union's scheme of expansion in Southeast Asia...
Thailand's capital, Bangkok, offered another neutral porthole for viewing the war-from 700 miles away. In the tradition of Lisbon in World War II and Beirut through the course of Middle East conflicts, Bangkok is a marketplace of intelligence and Asia's foremost rumor mill. In hopes of assembling a credible montage, diplomats and newsmen sifted through a cacophony of refugee reports, propaganda releases and tidbits of hearsay from stateless businessmen and drifters. The results were sometimes useful, but often not. Besides the Haiphong bombing, Bangkok "sources" served up the war's next most misleading report...
Overtures in Asia Minor...