Why are we (USA) dealing with China when China helped North Vietnam kill 58,000 American troops?

Question

Why are we (USA) dealing with China when China helped North Vietnam kill 58,000 American troops?

Answer 1

Everyone forgets Korea, which the Chinese greatly complicated not even two decades earlier resulting in almost ten times the casualties.

But grudges can't be held forever. After the atrocities that Japan committed in China, they are becoming ever-increasingly friendly.

What about the Germans?

Or for you Americans, the British?

Why do the British do business with the French? How many millions were killed in their centuries-long wars?

Why do the Japanese do business with the Americans after being nuked twice? That's far more serious than the Chinese support in the Vietnam war.

It's just the way that the world works. Yes, it's rather ironic, but it's practically impossible to completely cut off relations with a country because of events that happened decades ago. Circumstances change.

Besides, China is vital to the U.S economy.

Answer 2

for the same reason the us does business with Japan, Germany, Italy, Russia, England, and a few other countries that were at war with the US at one time or another - in some cases several times.  

Answer 3

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Answer 4

China is absolutely vital to the US economy its what allow most Americans to live beyond there means because China continues to buy the dept and continues to make cheap goods.

Besides that China was involved in Vietnam because it didn't want American troops on its door step. In other words it was protecting its interests as all countries do.

Why does China do business with the Japanese even though the Japanese tortured and slaughtered thousands of Chinese in WWII? It’s because grievances are often put aside in the face of big profits and economic growth.

Answer 5

Life goes on.

Answer 6

We should be fighting them and instead we do business with them

Answer 7

If every nation broke off relations with every nation that killed their troops, nobody would be dealing with anybody.  Should we break off relations with Britain?  They killed a few Americans back in the day.  Same with Germany, Japan, Mexico, Italy, and on and on and on.

Having said that, I agree that we spend way too much money on Chinese produced items, but that's the result of our free market economy.  And that's different than the generic "dealing" of your question.

Answer 8

What about the despots of Islam! Mad clerics the world over, in every area of the globe. Daily assassinating, killing, murdering thousands of muslims and non muslims!  Denied almost everything the western world has taken centuries to accomplish.

But the minority of despotic clerics of Islam deny it all the their peoples, keeping them uneducated, illiterate mass, sent out of mosques after hysterical gibberish to spread mayhem everywhere.

Why haven't they yet been silenced, overrun, their peoples allowed into the 21st century! No, the mad clerics of Islam would have the entire world living in caves and holes, while they destroy every known culture, freedom and democracy they can. Look at Islams nut clerics in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Indonesia, everywhere - then look at the state of those poor, wretched Muslims! What have they got to look forward to in their life - what can they ever hope to achieve?

The women, treated like animals, beaten, sold, abused, traded, married off ......... you name it ..... the list is legion ...  with countless other / every despicable acts imaginable. Not 1 muslim country the world over has or knows democracy, mad clerics ensuring it.

And they purport to the history, culture, blah, blah, blah of Islam !?

When will the millions of decent, honest, law abiding, respected Muslims the world over - stand up and overthrow the minority clerical  vermin that encase them in the dark satanic past