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| Cam Ranh Bay? |
| 2006-06-06 |
| Rumsfeld Moves to Expand US Military Relations With Vietnam, Indonesia U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld travels to Indonesia Tuesday for talks on re-establishing contacts with the country's military. Such military-to-military exchanges are emerging as a major theme of the secretary's visit to Southeast Asia. During a stop in Hanoi Monday, Rumsfeld reached agreement with Vietnamese officials to expand military contacts, further pushing the conflict of the 1960s and 70s into the past. Officials say the expansion of U.S.-Vietnamese military contacts will begin slowly, with a small number of Vietnamese officers coming to a U.S. military base in Texas to study English. Officials say that will be followed by medical training for Vietnamese soldiers, help on removing land mines, and increased cooperation in the effort to find American and Vietnamese troops missing from the war. Officials say a U.S. navy ship will also visit Vietnam this summer, the fourth such visit in the last four years. |
| Posted by:DanNY |
| #12 within 20 years via demography siberia will be china's. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-06-06 23:29 |
| #11 Ask the Russians how safe they feel about the Russian Far East, specifically Siberia and Kamchatka. Lots of minerals and resources, the Trans-Siberian railroad, port cities like Vladivodstok, small number of Russians, and a whole LOT of Chinese right next door. Also, China is making noises about how North Korea is historically part of China due to a Chinese kingdom that included part of Korea several hundred years ago. The Chinese operate like the Muslims : if they held it for 5 minutes 1400 years ago, it is theirs forever. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2006-06-06 23:17 |
| #10 Is there any Chinese border that is NOT disputed? It seems that where other folk see a border and another country, the Chinese Government sees a piece of the motherland thta must be reunited? |
| Posted by: john 2006-06-06 16:46 |
| #9 Let's kill two birds with one stone: we recognize Vietnam if they agree to send a division to Iraq. And we turn a blind eye to what they do when they get there. The best part is that we'll never hear a word of criticism from the MSM (people's struggle, Uncle Ho was a kindly old dude, etc.) |
| Posted by: Matt 2006-06-06 14:05 |
| #8 We've been talking about this for the past 3 yrs. Pretty ironic. The V.C. and NVA - now there was a people worth killing. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-06-06 13:46 |
| #7 The Viets are communist in name only at this time. The slivers of land that Vietnam might have lost to China were more than made up by the serious ass kicking the PLA took. They discovered what happens when you fight a battle hardened military. The North Korean war was their model and they got whupped. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2006-06-06 10:53 |
| #6 This should be good! The English classes are taught at Lackland AFB near San Antonio and there is a big Viet/Lao population in that area. Should spell the begining of the end for the Commies in Vietnam. I had a teacher at Hulbert Field that predicted this would happen eventually. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-06-06 10:28 |
| #5 The US may win this war yet. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-06-06 08:55 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-06 02:44 |
| #3 Less than 6 years after the US left Vietnam and 4 years after South Vietnam fell, the Chinese invaded Vietnam over an old border dispute. Over 25,000 died on each side and Vietnam lost territory to the PRC all along the border. The Vietnamese and Chinese have had border wars for 500 plus years, regardless of what goverment has run either country. So yes, the Vietnamese are nervous about the Northern Dragon. And Cam Ranh Bay has been mentioned to the US more than once over the years, along with the old airbase at Ton Sun Nhut. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2006-06-06 01:35 |
| #2 Anti-everybody Commie Vietnam is still willing to fight the Northern Dragon - too bad the pro-China = Anti-China starving Norkies aren't. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-06 00:45 |
| #1 Viet Nam fears the Northern Dragon? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-06 00:29 |