 Historian Professor Liam Kelley of the University of Hawaii at Manoa on his "Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog" challenged the authenticity of the alleged quote where Hồ Chí Minh said he "would rather smell French shit for five years than eat Chinese shit for a thousand," noting that Stanley Karnow provided no source for the extended quote attributed to him in his 1983 "Vietnam