unification in the name of commies always leads to lots of dead people
Yes, lot of North Korean “commies” died in the US bombing of the cities and towns there.
Then Malaysia
Then Vietnam
Then a bit in Indonesia
You lived a peaceful life in SE Asia once the commies stopped trying to expand.
I wonder why?
You wonder, but do you have any explanation why the “domino theory” proved to be wrong???
Under Stalin the domino theory wasn’t a theory it was a plan. While it doesn’t work easily with the Asian ethos as shown particularly in Vietnam and to a lesser extent in China, Singapore and HongKong would have been very different without Western intervention.
Singapore is what it is because it is a Financial Centre.
Microsoft teaming up with ZPMC
No
I assumed it was stopped in its tracks once they worked out you cant just walk in to a country?
They kept trying though with sending agents everywhere to cause trouble.
Malaysian emergency
Indonesia
a few bombs in Singapore
Not sure if Marcos had any or not, he just old Ronnie he did
At the end of WWII the ruling class in USA and Western Europe was dead scared of the spread of Communism, which was quite popular with the working class. At the same time colonialism was collapsing and nationalism was growing in the former colonies.
That Communism and Nationalism went hand in hand in many places made them even more scared, causing the western powers to go back on the agreements about support for nationalist leaders fighting for freedom. (I.e. China, Vietnam, Korea, Malaya, Indonesia etc.)
USA, as the dominant power, supported the former colonialist in retaking control of their colonies, with the exception of Korea, where it had been agreed to hold election on both sides of the dividing line and withdraw military forces by 1948. (It never happened) The same in Vietnam in 1956.
When China became a communist country in 1949 USA got even more scared. They pretended that the Nationalists on Taiwan was the “real China” for over two decades.
After two futile wars to shore up puppet regimes in South Korea and South Vietnam and several decades of trying to contain China, it may be time to realize that the world has changed. China and Vietnam is Communist in name only and North Korea is a family dynasty hell bent on survival and little else.
As to Singapore and Hong Kong they are able to survive and grow because of good governance, very free economies and, in the case of Singapore, it’s ability stay friendly with all major players.
The Malay Emergency in the 1950’s and the coupe in Indonesia in 1960’s was indeed cause by mostly local ethnic Chinese Communists seeking to gain political as well as economic influence. (Singapore was a separate Crown Colony at the time of the Emergency and a part of Malaysia during the “Konfrontasi” with Indonesia in the early 1960’s)
The bombing in Singapore in the 1960’s (McDonald House) was by Indonesian saboteurs (Konfrontasi)
The hijacking of the ferry Laju by the Japanese Red Army had nothing to do with Communism per se.
China is seeking to become an indispensable customer fostering two way trade:
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/china-signals-to-state-giants-buy-american-oil-and-grains/
This is good news and one small step toward closing a huge $300 billion plus balance of trade gap.
However, there is a big difference between buying finite natural resources like oil and gas, and soil depleting agricultural products vs. value added manufactured goods. China needs to import foreign oil, gas, and agricultural products from somewhere, so it’s a painless step for China toward reducing the trade gap to buy these things from the US.
This does not change the fact that the US is a net energy importer and should not be exporting crude oil or gas in the first place. That’s a really dumb policy which has hurt the Jones Act trade and US refiners. This is just pissing away what little energy security we have and raising US industrial and consumer energy costs.
The price of a new US made Tesla electric car in China is $47,000 more than in the US. That’s about ten times what the extra cost in China should be.
You didnt make it clear about the domino theory.
The domino part was with subversive tactics they tried to spread it everywhere, even Australia
What part proved to be wrong?
China has their own electric car now
Yes the propaganda departments on both sides tried to spread their “gospel” throughout the world.
They even fought proxy wars that killed millions in S.E.Asia, Middle-East, Africa. South and Central America.
Yet it was called a “Cold War”. because there were no direct clashes between the forces of the two super powers.
After having failed to win any of wars they engaged in the Soviet Union eventually collapsed, while the Americans claimed victory in the Cold War, but failed to learn anything from their failed adventures in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Nicaragua and other Central American countries.
It was not their superior political system or military might that won the Cold War, it was their economic power and ability to outspend the Soviet Union.
Thats why the commies got angry, their ideology failed the people.
They sent too much time and money trying to prove the wests system was no good.
They spent too much money on the arms race and too little on the well being of their people.
no arms in Cuba
Not any more. They cannot afford them and, since the Cold War is over they don’t need them. (Unless Trump need a new outside enemy)
None of the Caribbean countries have ever had any significant weapons or military, except Cuba in its day as a Soviet proxy trying to export communism.
Cuba is a beautiful country in a great location with friendly and industrious people. It has tremendous potential. It’s a shame what Castro and communism has done to them. Better days are coming.
Yes it is a shame what has been done to Cuba by the 50 years of US embargo to make them change their political system and accept American domination again.
I don’t know if the majority of Cubans would want the days of a US installed dictator under New York Mafia domination back again. They may not be rich, but at least they are not being oppressed by a foreign power.
Every country has the right to decide who it will, and will not, do business with.
Castro decided to cozy up to the Soviet Union and threaten the US with Soviet missles. So the US choose not to do business that would prop up the Castro regime.
The US subsequently took in millions of Cuban refugees fleeing Castro’s repressive communist dictatorship. Cubans have done very well in the US. Cubans in the US are the most strident supports of the embargo. Eventually, some of these Cuban-Americans will return to Cuba and rebuild it on the US model.
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