I am surprise to find that the town of Neuwied, Germany, where my uncle lives with his wife and two kids, has a website in German, English and French.

China now has the ability to shoot down a satellite 4ft by 4ft orbiting 530 miles above the earth. This followed the story of China using laser to disable US satellites late last year. The Chinese navy is expanding its capability to dominate the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Its submarine was able to escape detection and stalk a US carrier group, "surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected." Complacency will kill you quickly if you don't wake up fast. The US should forget the crap about "improving relations between the two nations' militaries." When we have a superior military force with superior technologies and competently trained military personnels, we will improve relations real well. They will listen attentively to what we have to say. Being of Vietnamese descent, a small country just south of China and suffered thousand of years under Chinese domination, I am telling all of you that it's not something you want your children to live under. It would not be an astonishment if we found out that the majority of the engineers working on this Chinese missile program were trained in the US, even at some of the Ivy League universities.

The current communist government of Vietnam has been welcoming the US Navy to its ports in Cam Ranh Bay and Saigon. Without a doubt it's a message to counter the growing and powerful Chinese navy. At the same time, Vietnam is stressing its independence because the current communist government learned the historic lesson of how the US dropped its cold war ally, the South Vietnamese government, like a rock once Nixon has cut a deal with China in 1972.