美国政府将1994年迫使海地军政府下台称为“胁迫外交的范例”,在2003年把303亿美元军费的用途明确列为“开展胁迫外交”。◆ In 1971, American scholar Alexander George first put forward the concept of "coercive diplomacy" to summarize the US policy toward Laos, Cuba and ...
Citing the Vietnamese monarchy’s persecution of Catholics and refusal of a trade request, France launched a series of attacks on Vietnam from 1858 onward. By 1867, France had seized as a direct colony the frontier southern third of Vietnam (Cochinchina orNam bộ) from the Vietnamese mon...
China has had a perennial concern with being surrounded by enemies- -the Soviets to the north and west, the Vietnamese to the south, and the Indians to the southwest–and has sought increasingly to project itself as a regional power. In response to this concern and power projection, in th...
But the reality is that China armed forces are untested.China’s two limited punitive “wars” against India (1962) and Vietnam (1979), are no indication of how it will do against America. China’s advance intentionally stopped short of Hanoi, Vietnam’s capitol. But the Vietnamese ...
Today, the eradication of Syrian agriculture and the White House’s revival of the Vietnam “scorched earth” tactic have become the US military strategy in Syria. All this should be addressed by international public and legal organizations, and Washington should be officially charged with war crim...
China invades Vietnam 1979 Birthday Zhang Ziyi, born in Beijing, China, actress, internationally successful film star, appeared in 'Hero', 'Purple Butterfly', 'House of Flying Daggars', 'The Horsemen', 'Memoirs of a Geisha' U.S. and China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations ...
February 24: China issues a protest against US intervention in Vietnam, saying it poses a “direct threat” to North Vietnam and jeopardizes “the security of China and the peace in Asia” August 1: Communist Party of Myanmar [CPB] exiles in China are allowed to issue their first public...
U.S. fear of spreading Communism –“the Red Menace” some called it – was a big factor in our involvement in the long and costly Korean War and the War in Vietnam, fighting forces backed by the Chinese. China retaliates against US tariffs, targets food imports ...
In late 1978, the Chinese also became concerned over Vietnam's efforts to establish open control over Laos and Cambodia. In response to the Soviet-backed Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, China fought a brief border war with Vietnam (February-March 1979) with the stated purpose of "teaching ...
In 1979 400,000 PLA troops suddenly appeared on that same border to teach the Vietnamese a lesson for their assistance in bringing down the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, who had been a close ally of the PRC. That was the last “border war” between the two countries. Vietnam and ...