Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panel planned the trip last September and has not met since the recent strife began between China and Vietnam, Horner said, adding the group had planned a meeting in Washington last weekend but cancelled it due to the snow...
...leave Iran to do so. Admittedly, there are implications of "intervention" here, and in view of the United States' poor experience in countries where it has intervened, it is questionable whether such a policy should be pursued even in this case. But intervention has many facets and a Vietnam-type or Chile-type intervention is not being proposed here. Furthermore, the success of such a policy depends on how one chooses to define success: if success means avoiding possible setbacks in relations with the Khomeini government, then the policy will be a failure. But if aiding a community of approximately...
Since 1973 when the Paris peace accords marked the beginning of the end of U.S. presence in Vietnam, U.S. Asian policy has turned to China. The 1973 Shanghai communique set the establishment of normal relations with the People's Republic as the primary task for the two nations. And in the entire debate concerning recognition of China, of Vietnam, and in fact of any nation that undergoes a major political change, a basic confusion of means and ends fundamentally weakens any U.S. moves to achieve its legitimate foreign policy goals. Throughout the debate surrounding diplomatic recognition of Vietnam and China...
...read too much into the restoration of normal relations with China, it made the same mistake with Vietnam. Because the U.S. has refused to recognise Vietnam, it has forfeited any ability to ameliorate events in Southeast Asia. Again, American policy makers have held that the U.S. should establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam only after Vietnam meets all the preconditions normally worked out in the context of diplomatic relations...
...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...