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It would be WWIII whether the US defends it or not. Because it gives China free reign to invade other areas, such as the disputed South China Sea. This will lead to conflict with Vietnam and the Phillipines. The dominoes will continue to fall until the US intervenes eventually to protect de facto NATO countries Australia and New Zealand.

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Although Vietnam keeps its head down and is welcoming and nice to US, they're still a single party system named the Communist Party dabbling in marxist and modern state capital systems. They still predictably squash dissent and put them in gulags/reducation camps, and the lack of this news only points to them being too small and insignificant for us to care.

Do we really care if two Communist Parties attack each other?

Communist, democratic, (il)liberal -- the rhetoric all doesn't matter. Containment of China and an international balance of power is the issue, not which flavor of governance domestically.

Although I’m very skeptical of their intentions, I don't share that priority

>Although Vietnam keeps its head down and is welcoming and nice to US, they're still a single party system named the Communist Party dabbling in marxist and modern state capital systems.

China and Vietnam have fought a war with each other more recently than either has fought the US.

In our lifetime we will again see the US Navy based at Cam Ranh Bay, and the USAF based at Tan Son Nhut. (Same with Subic and Clark in the Philippines.)

> and New Zealand.

New Zealand will cave and sell out, long before any war comes along. It’s bad for business to have principles, and we have stuck to that course over multiple China issues and multiple governments. ‘Our’ politicians (are they ours or Chinas?) have had financial interests in China throughout their terms and there was even a Chinese communist party member and trained Chinese intelligence member in our parliament.

We picked our side.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300054428/parliamentary-inqui...

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/122094310/jian-yang-...

...are they ours or Chinas?

Perhaps you couldn't say the same thing about Vietnam (I don't know enough about it), but you definitely could about Philippines.

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