Word: vietnamization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...FIRST TIME since the withdrawal of the last foreign troops from Vietnam in 1975, combat in the region raised the specter of superpower nuclear exchanges. But this time, no American families will receive form letters beginning We regret to inform you that...
...recent double invasions--Vietnam into Cambodia and China into Vietnam--have demonstrated conclusively that the United States has no leverage in Southeast Asia...