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The Mikado
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« on: July 17, 2012, 11:51:35 PM »

While Vietnam is saber-rattling hard right now (see the "protests" this past week...Vietnamese people don't "protest" without governmental approval), neither side really wants to go to blows over the Spratlys. 

This days after Hillary Clinton cleaned up in Phnom Penh at the ASEAN summit.  US is making a big charm offensive in SE Asia in the wake of China pissing everyone off and Burma/Myanmar leaving Beijing's orbit and opening up.
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« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2012, 10:26:19 AM »

Yea right.

When is the last time China has waged an American-style war just to show who's boss?

The People's Republic of China has proven to be much less of a threat to countries around the world than The United States of America has. They certainly don't have the track record of permanent war that we do.

Perhaps as their power grows they will decide to start invading countries for fun like we do, but that is yet to be seen.

How about the last time China fought a war against Vietnam (which was done in part due to the insistence of the US)?

Which isn't to say that I'm expecting dramatics this time around.

Damn, beaten.  Was about to post the Third Indochina War myself, though even that was theoretically China protecting its little puppet, Pol Pot's Cambodia, from Vietnamese "aggression."
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