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China is not the only nation guilty of violent powerplays. Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia--though perhaps provoked by the Pol Pot regime's border raids in Vietnam--was not a defensive action...
...President Carter has limited himself to exhortations of nonaggression, urging the Chinese to withdraw from Vietnam and Vietnam to withdraw from Cambodia. There is not much else he can do. The U.S., no stranger to amoral powerplays in Vietnam, has little or no leverage left in Southeast Asia...
...continuation of war in Southeast Asia is a disheartening threat to world peace. Apparently the governments of China, Vietnam and Cambodia believe that aggression is necessary to maintain their power and prestige. The losers, as always, are the people of those countries...
...recent double invasions--Vietnam into Cambodia and China into Vietnam--have demonstrated conclusively that the United States has no leverage in Southeast Asia...
...battles now being fought in Vietnam and Cambodia blatantly disregard such concern for human rights. The danger to world peace and the suffering endured by the people in those countries remain beyond the scope of possible U.S. influence because of the confusion of means and ends in U.S. policy formulation. The means have been lost, sacrificed because American policy makers mistook the tools of foreign policy for a positive statement of policy in themselves. Having played its China card, the U.S. holds nothing--no Vietnam card, no Cambodia card, and no control over a game in which it is vitally...