Biden’s Vietnam embrace repeats past US mistakes

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Biden’s Vietnam embrace repeats past US mistakes
aljazeera.com
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The US is again attempting to draw Vietnam into superpower politics.

I think it's the aggressive superpower neighbor of theirs releasing official maps that claim Vietnamese waters as their own doing that you shameless China apologist.

China essentially claims all of Asia that isn't India or Russia, including Japan. And if Putin falls I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to sneak some bits off Russia.

I mean, I largely agree with the facts of the article, but I don't see what part is a "mistake." If you've decided to play the superpower game, drawing countries into your orbit seems like the correct strategy, as does prioritizing ones that have ties to other powerful countries that you would like to undercut.

If they think that "attempting to remain a superpower" is a mistake in and of itself, then it's not a repeat, it's just one continuous mistake that started last century.