Day: January 2, 2018

Is Hong Kong Really Part of China? – by Yi-Zheng Lian – NYT

January 9, 2018 / China, Hong Kong

HONG KONG — One could say that long before 1997, the year that Britain handed Hong Kong back to China, the leaders of the city’s major pro-democracy parties had come to a tacit understanding with the Chinese government. The pan-dems, as these politicians are known here, would support the absorption of Hong Kong into a …

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Was America Duped at Khe Sanh? – The New York Times

January 9, 2018 / Vietnam-American War

In late 1967, Giap concentrated some 40,000 soldiers in the hills of northwest South Vietnam and orchestrated a series of assaults on a string of American combat bases in the highlands, not far from a Marine base called Khe Sanh, which the North besieged in January 1968. Giap later called these attacks a “diversion” to …

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