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One of these is an authoritarian imperialist empire, the other is China (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The US has literally militarily occupied the Philippines, Japan and South Korea. As for Vietnam, the reason they had historical beef with China was due to the sino-soviet split, but that beef has been largely resolved and the Vietnamese are not as anti-china as you think they are.