Melanie
Manuel
ASA 150E
001
15
February 2020
Nayan
Chanda’s Brother Enemy discusses an unsaid relationships between Vietnam,
Cambodia, and China, and I am merely speaking for myself when I say that I didn’t
realize the extent of these relationships and how their power dynamics worked,
at least nothing besides the fact that Vietnam and China did not like each
other. I only understood this after hearing it in class. However, these
relationships going beyond the Vietnam War, hearing it from a first-person
account of the events that was well into the actions provides a necessary
perspective. Chanda speaks without the authority of knowing better, but with
the intent of releasing a truth, or even multiple truths, in the sections we
were given. He ultimately presents the well-known fact that United States
intervention should not have taken place in Indochina, and this much I believe
to be very true. United States intervention has done very little to help
relations, in its stead, only presenting the country’s true and selfish
capitalistic nature. I honestly never realized or knew about the relationship
shared between Vietnam and Cambodia, so this was an eye-opening piece that
helped me understand these relationships a little better.
The image
I included came with the title, “Vietnam’s forgotten Cambodian war,” which is
odd and interesting to think about, because we don’t realize this kind of
history in United States textbooks. It takes digging to understand these sorts
of relationships, and it makes me wonder what the relationship between the two
countries is like now.
Works Cited
Chanda, Nayan.
Brother Enemy: The War after the War, 1988.
Image
Used
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29106034
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