And so it has become easier to neglect my account of her adventures in place of themes more immediate to my attention. I have previously written about her journeys in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, and had began an account of her sojourn in Vietnam.
I sometimes need to read something in the news as a reminder that my accounts and her travels are still incomplete. Of course, the troubles in Myanmar are never far from my mind since the military coup, but I have felt unsure of my comprehension of that situation thus far. I have tried to write about faraway places with strange sounding names only through the eyes of those people I have known.
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Cross border raids and skirmishes ensued, in which China and Vietnam fought a prolonged border war from to Both sides have since worked to improve their diplomatic and economic ties, although the two countries remain in dispute over political and territorial issues in the South China Sea or East Sea. However, the two countries have been striving for restraint as well as present and future stability.
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