Comments by "" (@sinoroman) on "CHINA vs. VIETNAM: the New Race of the Century - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. heritage/cultural-connection between vietnam and china makes things difficult to describe. viets are yue, as VIETnam is YUEnan in chinese. the people in guangdong and some neighboring provinces are considered Yue Chinese; cantonese is a Yue language. Gin people are basically vietnamese people living in china, as they speak the language but the written form is not the latin version, it's still the one using chinese characters. vietnam is not part of china and shouldn't be, but the connection is clearly there. song dynasty and the dynasties before always go after Dai Viet (vietnam). yes, china did attack korea, central asia, and other places, but not every dynasty tho. for the most part, the unified china would go after viet land. yuan, ming, and qing had different reasons for attacking. the dynasties before attacked as "reconquest" technically. i do know that before qin/han dynasty, southern china used to be populated with full-blooded yue people, but after qin/han conquered yue tribes, the yue people were pretty much mixed after a while. vietnam considers Kingdom of Nanyue as a viet dynasty, but it's half-half (han and viet). it's a weird situation.
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