tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post5604182362431919623..comments2024-03-28T23:42:23.455+08:00Comments on KTemoc Konsiders ........: Western apathetic hypocrisy or hypocritical apathy?KTemochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09951253039042572381noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-87056374284400500442022-03-27T19:45:33.300+08:002022-03-27T19:45:33.300+08:00'scorched earth' policy?
No!
When the wa...'scorched earth' policy?<br /><br />No!<br /><br />When the war started, the PLA discovered that many of the weaponry & even normal army supplies of the Vietnamese soldiers were of China origin!<br /><br />They were provided by the Chinese to Ho Chi Minh's army to fight the Yankee!<br /><br />Thus, the PLA destroyed all military leftovers, be they weapons or supplies, when they withdrawed back to China territory.<br /><br />"destroying all important infrastructure and pillaging assets with the aim to (underscored) the Vietnamese ecnomic situation"<br /><br />It was a lie!<br /><br />CKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423926161945889390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-52483456093832521772022-03-27T17:39:18.100+08:002022-03-27T17:39:18.100+08:00Talk about unilateral maritime territory claim, ha...Talk about unilateral maritime territory claim, have anyone of u ever heard that Japan has announced it will spend more than $100 million rebuilding structures on a distant atoll whose total land mass is less than 100 sq. ft?<br /><br />沖ノ鳥島 (Okinotori-shima), or Parece Vela, is a coral reef with two rocks enlarged with tetrapod-cement structures. It is located on the Palau–Kyushu Ridge in the Philippine Sea, 534 km (332 mi) southeast of Okidaitōjima and 567 km (352 mi) west-southwest of South Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands or 1,740 km (1,080 mi) south of Tokyo, Japan. <br /><br />Eventually the reclaimed island would has built-up 200-nautical-mile (370-kilometre) exclusive economic zone (EEZ) bigger than the whole of Japan nation!<br /><br />China, South Korea, and Taiwan dispute the Japanese EEZ, saying that the atoll does not meet the definition of an island under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.<br /><br />The funniest fart is the USofA has never raised a finger in this maritime dispute using his freedom of navigation right!CKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423926161945889390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-88739238956899471012022-03-27T17:26:55.946+08:002022-03-27T17:26:55.946+08:00Here it goes AGAIN with all these blurred mfers, b...Here it goes AGAIN with all these blurred mfers, breathing on all those foul gaseous permeated from that fart filled well.<br /><br />"claiming the sea between west & east Malaysia as theirs, just because of some gravestones (or is it the sea bears its name?)"<br /><br />No gravestones! <br /><br />But ACTUAL written records of blood, sweat & tear of those South China Sea fishermen & navigators of eon past - unlike that western maritime farts of claims, basing on their cannon mights.<br /><br />Bet u never read Anything about those records, as u can never read them in their true form.CKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423926161945889390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-42642519919385334802011-03-29T09:35:14.881+08:002011-03-29T09:35:14.881+08:00Vinnan is correct in China's objectives in the...Vinnan is correct in China's objectives in the invasion of Vietnam in 1979. It's one of those typical high level geo-strategic manoeuvres between China and USSR. China wanted to attract Vietnamese troops (and thus Soviet influence) out of Cambodia and also to show Soviet inability to aid its ally Vietnam. It started by positioning 1.5 million troops in high alert at the Soviet-Chinese borders and evacuating 300,000 Chinese civilians from there, making ferocious threats about its preparedness to go to war against the USSR. That got the USSR's top attention<br /><br />It then made a limited invasion (just 20 kms) into Vietnam and stopped there. But Soviet satellite intelligence saw through its ploy and advised Vietnam about China's ploy; Vietnam then saw no necessity to withdraw its troops from Cambodia, though it moved its government from Hanoi to Hue.<br /><br />When the Chinese saw that the Vietnamese was not deceived by its feint, it withdrew its troops. But it did something bad; it conducted a 'scorched earth' policy as it withdrew, destroying all important infrastructure and pillaging assets with the aim fo setting Vietnamese ecnomic situation back to prevent future Vietnamese military ambiitons (and thus Soviet influence) in SE Asia.KTemochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09951253039042572381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-19868767688739252422011-03-28T21:52:59.545+08:002011-03-28T21:52:59.545+08:00Anon 9:11 PM, March 28, 2011,
You are right. Howe...Anon 9:11 PM, March 28, 2011,<br /><br />You are right. However, I think you misunderstand the meaning of hegemony. Hegemony usually has to do with consensus rather than military force while military battles with specific strategic goals usually means the lack of hegemonic influence/ability. The 1979 attack on Vietnam had more to do with China asserting its sphere of influence vis-a vis the Soviet Union.vinnannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-81845055096666684152011-03-28T21:26:45.785+08:002011-03-28T21:26:45.785+08:00Any of you old enough remember the Konfrontasi yea...Any of you old enough remember the Konfrontasi years?, the drills in school, in anticipation of some aerial attack?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-3521279151068332682011-03-28T21:11:27.843+08:002011-03-28T21:11:27.843+08:00Hey, didn't China attack Vietnam in 1979?Hey, didn't China attack Vietnam in 1979?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-12291906202342974842011-03-27T00:39:00.560+08:002011-03-27T00:39:00.560+08:00If you are referring to the Chinese claim over the...If you are referring to the Chinese claim over the Paracel and Spratly islands you should also know that at least more than half a dozen other countries also claim sovereignty over these islands. China will be launching an aircraft carrier group very soon and there can be no doubt the Sanya naval base on Hainan island is ready to support such a battle group. With the US busy killing Arabs and the Japanese totally focused on rebuilding the ravaged nation for the next ten years the Chinese carrier group would become the single most powerful Asian military unit in Asia since the Pearl Harbour Attack in 1942. The last time the Chinese launched their ships to demonstrate Chinese military muscle to the Southeast Asian none of these countries were attacked by the Ming ships. While it is true 'most countries with some muscle will somehow be involved in some kind of hegemony' the same may not happen in our part of the world. On the other hand it would be sheer stupidity of the Southeast Asian nations to not offer the Chinese some form of tribute as a peace offering.vinnannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11109306.post-84920806125163748132011-03-26T15:04:58.760+08:002011-03-26T15:04:58.760+08:00most countries with some muscle will somehow be in...most countries with some muscle will somehow be involved in some kind of hegemony<br /><br />if you look nearer, a big country in the east is now claiming the sea between west & east Malaysia as theirs, just because of some gravestones (or is it the sea bears its name?), It is because of the oil there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com