In Nayan Chanda’s reading for this week, Brother Enemy:
The War After the War one of the main aspects touched on in these chapters
was on how Vietnam, Cambodia, and the countries surrounding them had years of
history before and after the United States intervention. This is an interesting
article because it did share quite a few of the skirmishes from big fights to
small. Because Americans have ignored the history that did not directly
impacted them, they wouldn’t have seen how Vietnam could spread through
one school of thought to another. Vietnam quickly formed a group and used their
new found strength to help them in their claim against other
countries that had taken over parts of these two countries. It was interesting
to see how quickly these altercations or verbal conflicts took place. In some cases,
as in that of the Chinese, they strongly supported Vietnam during the war while
decreasing the support to verbal in an effort to make sure that Vietnam did not
forsake them to be influenced by Russia. Although they paid compliments to the leaders
that had embraced communism as their philosophy, this still did not mean that
their group as a whole could not be taken lightly. In this literary work, the
author explained that this stage of a county coming into its own As Chanda said
in this reading, “In some ways it was natural, almost inevitable, that at the
conclusion of a successful national struggle against foreign domination the
victors would try to consolidate control over territories considered to be national
patrimony” (Chanda 11).
In applying the information learned in this section, I
believe this is similar to how the Taiwanese live currently. As a country, Taiwan
is trying to make a name for itself. As implied in previous readings due to the
convoluted history that comes from years of arguments over boarders, wars and
banter, it was nice to see some of those involved who came together to search
for amiable decision. In looking at the situation of Taiwanese, it is important
to note that the country has continually had a spirit of revolt with it being a
popular place for individuals to flee to after their political or military attack
was not met with enough support to sustain a invasion of China. This is one
of the reasons why Taiwanese resist merging with China.
My question is: What other histories are that create
complicated situations that those who don’t know the history would miss entirely.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/thousands-take-to-streets-of-taiwans-capital-taipei-to-protest-govts-plans-to-reform
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