Title states all, Vietnam is a country that fought for it's independence, fought off multiple invaders including 2 industrialized western superpower nations, and now is one of the fastest growing economies in East Asia and is generally speaking seen as a positive nation on the global stage, without all of the baggage that China or North Korea carry. Obviously this is an abridged understanding of Vietnam but on paper it looks good, unless there's some brave posters willing to tell me otherwise?
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You could do the exact same thing for China, I don't see your point here
That's exactly my point. People go "China has billionaires, China bad."
If thats the case then Vietnam has billionaires. Vietnam also bad.
Both countries run on basically the same system, so its pretty wild to say that one is a state capitalist and the other is socialist.
I can at least understand the people who say both are bad.
How about both are good? :thinkin-lenin:
Thats my general take on their economies, yeah. The only major criticism I have of Vietnam is their willingness to be a lackey of the US military.
They use the US for their own national interests, but it’s not like they host US bases or anything.
It’s about on par with China’s support of Israel.
The only issue is the closeness to the USA makes it less likely they’ll pull out of their downward spiral of privatisation.
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