These claims, however, created lots of tensions in Vietnamese communities at home and abroad. Anyway, the story of Vietnam war is complicated, and thus blaming the collapse of South Vietnam entirely on the left and the Democratic Party is blatantly ignorant.

Of course, the North did not keep their agreement, but Nixon was no where to be helpful because he was busy dealing with the Watergate scandal. Nixon then promised to President Thieu that he would punish the North heavily if they were to break the agreement. Indeed, South Vietnam president at the moment Nguyen Van Thieu at first refused to sign the peace agreement in 1973.

They totally or conveniently forgot that it was Nixon who messed around with the peace talk and secretly met with North Vietnam without telling the South Vietnam. They also claimed that after the war ended in 1975, Biden voted against Vietnamese war refugees coming to the US. This then led to the anti-war protest to pressure the US government to bring their troops home. For instance, they said that the so-called left-wing media such as New York Times and Washington Post were bought by North Vietnam and thus portrayed the war in South Vietnam negatively to change US public opinion on the war. Most of the claims come from Vietnamese/ Vietnamese Americans supporting Trump. Since Biden became the presidential runner, I have seen lots and lots of crazy claims about Vietnam war. Up until earlier this year, I have always been more interested in ancient Vietnamese history. Recently, I started to read a bit more about this era. He wrote a famous book “Viet Nam Su Luoc” in 1920. Was it really the case, I always wondered? Where were Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang, Viet Cach, Dai Viet Quoc Xa, etc? Was the so-called “puppet state” Tran Trong Kim government really evil? By the way, Tran Trong Kim was a respected scholar and historian. Growing up in Vietnam, I remember learning about the August Revolution with only Viet Minh and Thanh Nien Tien Phong as the main forces. Not all people would agree with me, and some may say it is 1975. If anyone asks me which time point is the most significant in modern Vietnamese history, my answer is 1945. This month marks 75 years of the August Revolution in Viet Nam (Cach Mang Thang Tam). “Viet Nam” - Oil pastel, either 2015 or 2016, Iowa City

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