In the 19th century, America unilaterally opened up feudal Japan by forcible persuasion. However, European colonization and exploitation of Asia led to the rise of Dark Forces and WWII. America, a former British colony and a nation of white men, naturally gravitated toward helping its European allies in Asia. Winston Churchill, along with Harry Truman, began the Cold War that caused as much sufferings as the previous war. In the following Domino theory, Eisenhower mistakenly thought that Vietnam rather than China was the enemy. In WWII, the US provided logistics (Ho Chi Minh Trail) over Burma Himalayan mountains to save Chiang Kai Chek Kuomintang from Japanese annihilation. However, 1974 Red Chinese seizure of Hoang Sa (Paracel islands) from the weak VNCH marked the beginning of US doubt. At that time, Congress had rejected the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and forbade military intervention by Task Force 77. The Khmer rouge raids on Vietnam western frontier and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, China's aggressive moves in the East Sea, and Taiwan have led to a new thinking of the Domino Theory. China has replaced Japan as the bad guy that has to be stopped at all costs.
In the 19th century, America unilaterally opened up feudal Japan by forcible persuasion. However, European colonization and exploitation of Asia led to the rise of Dark Forces and WWII. America, a former British colony and a nation of white men, naturally gravitated toward helping its European allies in Asia. Winston Churchill, along with Harry Truman, began the Cold War that caused as much sufferings as the previous war.
In the following Domino theory, Eisenhower mistakenly thought that Vietnam rather than China was the enemy. In WWII, the US provided logistics (Ho Chi Minh Trail) over Burma Himalayan mountains to save Chiang Kai Chek Kuomintang from Japanese annihilation. However, 1974 Red Chinese seizure of Hoang Sa (Paracel islands) from the weak VNCH marked the beginning of US doubt. At that time, Congress had rejected the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and forbade military intervention by Task Force 77.
The Khmer rouge raids on Vietnam western frontier and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam, China's aggressive moves in the East Sea, and Taiwan have led to a new thinking of the Domino Theory. China has replaced Japan as the bad guy that has to be stopped at all costs.