Fifty Years of the Politics of War and Peace: Vietnam Then and China Now

Published on April 12, 2024

Commentary “Nothing new under the Sun”—Ecclesiastes This is a story of then and now: 1974 and 2024; Hanoi, Beijing, and Washington—from U.S. betrayal of South Vietnam in 1973–1975 to America’s unilateral surrender to Beijing in 2023–2024. Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden slow-walked prepaid aid to Taiwan. Mr. Biden all but announced unilateral surrender of Taiwan at an APEC conference in San Francisco in November 2023. The intentions of the top leadership of antiwar protesters of 1974–1975 and the progressives and socialists of 2024 were the same. Many hated the United States and lusted and acted to change it. They found hope for democracy in Hanoi and prosperity in Beijing. They allied with the enemy in Hanoi and in Beijing....

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