How is China bullying the US? xD
Look at the India relationship, it's awful. China has no clue how to create positive and mutually beneficial relationships around the world.
It sees everything as a zero-sum game. The US, despite it's flaws, is excellent at building and maintaining deep economic and political relationships around the world. Europe, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, all have had benefited massively from their relationships with the US.
China's CCP has had 50 years to develop ties with Vietnam and the Vietnamese hate the CCP.
I can't believe I'm reading this here. The USA has bullied its will in the world unopposed (except a little by the URSS) since the end of the Second World War. Just go to wikipedia and read, for instance, the history of any country south of Rio Grande . Or Iran, now that is fashionable.
http://www.zompist.com/latam.html
We could find many more examples of fights against authoritarianism, for instance:
"The 1953 Iranian coup d'état,[..], was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United States [..] and the United Kingdom [..]"
"Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now part of BP) and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves"
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
Yes, the extremely weak countries were pawns but, relatively speaking, the US let France be France and Canada be Canada.
Thank you very much but we let ourselves be France by getting nukes as soon as possible, leaving NATO command and kicking US troops out.
In the 50s a number of people were acutely aware of the bullet we dodged in WW2 (we came quite close to being scraped apart into rump states).
The US is by far the biggest bully in the world and has been since WW2.
I think you’re overlooking the entire history of western colonization and US empire there.
Belt and Road initiative? China is helping many African countries develop infrastructure, and doing so in a mutually beneficial manner.
Infrastructure they can't afford ( maintenance because of bad quality roads) and using loans for paying Chinese workers benefits only China.
Most countries are seeing their debts rising as never before.
And don't forget undermining democracy in Europe by false investment promises to eastern countries and inviting Russia without announcement - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/c...
PS. Don't forget the Chinese racism vs Africans, even when they are working on their countries.
It's time to threat them like they do us, no access to any market would be fair.
China invades to interrupt vietnam's invasion of cambodia (splitting vietnam's forces), but takes relatively heavy losses due to outdated military strategy (essentially losing to a bunch of militia on their way to the capitol).
Had Vietnam been allowed to take cambodia/laos/etc, a united indochina could have been a pretty serious player in the region, and served as a counter to China. Instead China essentially aborted that plan, and can now push its southern neighbors around.