[TĐH: I am not sure that the US actively supported Khmer Rouge, as asserted in the following article. At that time, US had just lost South Vietnam (The Republic of VN) to North Vietnam (The Socialist Republic of VN), so US was depressed, angry at North Vietnam, embargoing the newly united Vietnam, and shy from involving Vietnam in anything. So, US was doing nothing related to Vietnam (except the embago), acting like US knew nothing about the astrocities happening in Cambodia. And EU simply followed its leader US. The entire Western world turned a blind eye toward Cambodia.
China punished Vietnam in 1979 for “invading” Cambodia but got black-eyed from Vietnam.
Call it anything you want, but Vietnam did eliminate Khmer Rouge and save the Cambodians from the worst astrocities in Cambodia’s history. You can ask Hun Sen directly about this.]
Why did Kmer Rouge attacked Vietnam in 1975-1978 while they are weaker obviously?
“Ai lên xứ hoa đào” – xứ hoa đào nào? Tây Bắc ư? Không, chính là Đà Lạt.
Đà Lạt đâu có danh tiếng xứ hoa đào mà lại có bài hát như vậy?
Vì đây là một bài nhạc vàng, sáng tác vào những năm 1950. Đối với người miền Nam thời đó, gần như không biết đến miền Bắc, không biết đến những rừng hoa đào, hoa mơ, hoa ban… khắp vùng Tây Bắc, nên họ chỉ biết có Đà Lạt. Continue reading Ai lên xứ hoa đào→
15 years- so near and yet so far, isn’t it? But some say 20–30 years.
Let’s get real.
Yesterday, all Thai TV viewers were made to see a piece of the news —how Vietnam’s VinFast the first lot of EV vehicles were made to line up waiting for docking on board to ship to the US… the sight that raises everyone’s eye brows.
However, it’s no surprise with Vietnam is one of the few countries to record positive economic growth during the pandemic
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