Honestly, the invasion of Vietnam and support of Khmer Rouge should be included… along with America’s support for the same. It then shows China’s self-crit and divergence in policy from the US.
I think the “L” needs to be taken since if nothing else it really shows the superiority of China’s FP – they haven’t bungled like that since the end of the Soviet Union.
It then shows China’s self-crit and divergence in policy from the US.
Did they self-crit? I know there’s an interview where deng, regarding supporting pol pot, said something like “well we didn’t know what was going on there but we had to fight vietnamese (soviet) hegemony throughout southeast asia”, but idk if the at the time or current chinese foreign ministry would say they did anything wrong or would do anything different regarding the broader sino-soviet proxy-wars because, to them, their most threatening enemy was the USSR (right next to them) not the US and their strategy worked. Though obviously they behave much differently nowadays
They’ve diverged from US policy in part because their common enemy defeated itself before china really re-approached it in a internationalist manner (that is in taking joint action with the ussr), and now china itself is the enemy.
Totally fair I might be being too generous here. It might just be material conditions changed. I would hope they’d disavow that shit, but I’ll admit I’m not read on Chinese perspectives on these choices.
Honestly, the invasion of Vietnam and support of Khmer Rouge should be included… along with America’s support for the same. It then shows China’s self-crit and divergence in policy from the US.
I think the “L” needs to be taken since if nothing else it really shows the superiority of China’s FP – they haven’t bungled like that since the end of the Soviet Union.
Did they self-crit? I know there’s an interview where deng, regarding supporting pol pot, said something like “well we didn’t know what was going on there but we had to fight vietnamese (soviet) hegemony throughout southeast asia”, but idk if the at the time or current chinese foreign ministry would say they did anything wrong or would do anything different regarding the broader sino-soviet proxy-wars because, to them, their most threatening enemy was the USSR (right next to them) not the US and their strategy worked. Though obviously they behave much differently nowadays
They’ve diverged from US policy in part because their common enemy defeated itself before china really re-approached it in a internationalist manner (that is in taking joint action with the ussr), and now china itself is the enemy.
Totally fair I might be being too generous here. It might just be material conditions changed. I would hope they’d disavow that shit, but I’ll admit I’m not read on Chinese perspectives on these choices.