With Vietnam’s emergence as a pivotal player in Asia, we are able to view the Vietnam War in the context of the US strategy of global containment, which led it to defend not only South Vietnam, but also South Korea and Taiwan – “the three fronts,” as Mao Zedong put it. Then and now, Vietnam was the locus of a struggle between the vision of a monolithic Asia and that of an Asia that is open internally and to the world.
随着越南兴起成为亚洲事务的其中一位核心参与者，我们要在美国全球遏制战略的背景下来重新解读越南战争，这场战争不仅保卫了越南南部，同时也保住了韩国和台湾——类似于毛泽东所谓的“三条战线”。不论过去还是现在，在亚洲秩序是走向单一霸权还是对内外开放的斗争中，越南都占据了核心地位。