Quote by Mark Bowden

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

— U Thant

“China was the first front in a new cold war. And it had all been misunderstood”

— Michael Wolff

“The time would come when every leader in the world would read the writings of the Chinese Communists—for it was barely possible that the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“China might have given up on trying to stop the endless civil war, but some of its companies were still here, picking over history’s…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of…

— Michael W. Michalak

For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.

— Michael W. Michalak

“And as far as the United States in Vietnam, the United States did not lose prestige because it left Vietnam. It lost prestige when…

— Howard Zinn

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French,…

— Noam Chomsky

“This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.”

— Patrick Mendis

“The war in China exemplified a fact often forgotten about the Second World War: globally, more non-combatants perished than uniformed participants. Civilians in China…

— A.G. Riddle

“Vietnam has the opportunity in the future to show the world how to conquer falsehood with Truth.”

— VD

“If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic…

— Rana Mitter