We already know that socialism is going strong in China, Korea, and Cuba. But we (or at least I) don't hear that much about Vietnam and Laos.
How is it going over there? What is their trajectory towards becoming developed? How much progress have they made so far? Is the socialist ideology going strong there? Where can I keep up to date on these countries?
I haven't read the whole thing quite yet, but this looks good. It concludes:
The Lao PDR, as a developing nation, still has a long road ahead in its pursuit of socialism. However, by pursuing socialism without entering a period of full capitalism, building the socialist-oriented New Economic Mechanism, and continuing the development of economic reforms on the basis of Marxism-Leninism, the Lao PDR, with the LPRP at the helm, has accomplished more in the past five decades than would have seemed possible in 1975.
And here's a much shorter article with some good info as well.
The AES podcast has a good episode on Laos: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/8d546709-2b54-498a-a29d-a0bde330a940/id/25666209
Luna Oi has a lot of videos on how socialism works in Vietnam: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4l7I2RxGBJ3i_EFi1SzuA
unlike china, cuba, and north korea vietnam has adopted the economic policy of letting foreign firms own and operate with little oversight or party control so I will say I consider it bad and partially why I notice an ever increasing number of young vietnamese abandoning communist ideology
