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[Yellow is Okay]

He is sentenced in prison

Do you have actual evidence for this claim? Because he's still walking around free.

and money fines by both German and Vietnam courts.

Did you even read the ruling? Most of their claims were thrown out, and they still ended up paying most of the legal fees and again,

Also, the part about them "winning" against Le Trung Khoa has nothing to do with VinFast's overall car quality.

If he repeats the offense he can be kicked out of Germany in worst case scenario.

Then he should know from now on what he should say and what he shouldn't. And even better, the thing you most want to shut him up about, VinFast's car quality and its sales performance in Europe and Germany, isn't off-limits.

Also, about Vietnam's warrants,

Vietnam has publicly issued arrest warrants for Le Trung Khoa (Berlin) and Nguyen Van Dai (Hesse), both residing in Germany, since Friday. They are accused of "producing, possessing, distributing, or transferring information, documents, and materials against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam." This relates to their journalistic activities.

The Vietnamese authorities knew that both men lived in Germany and that Le Trung Khoa was a German citizen. However, they still published their last known place of residence in Vietnam and declared them as Vietnamese citizens. Mr. Le could not renounce his Vietnamese citizenship when he obtained German citizenship in 2024 because the Vietnamese Embassy in Berlin refused all consular services to him. Therefore, he holds dual citizenship.

By issuing this arrest warrant, Vietnam is violating German law. They wrote: "Anyone who identifies the whereabouts of the defendants Nguyen Van Dai or Le Trung Khoa is permitted to arrest them immediately and bring them to the nearest police station, prosecutor's office, or people's committee." However, Vietnam knows that both men live in Germany. In Germany, only German police are authorized to make arrests. With this appeal, Vietnam is inciting its citizens to disregard this fundamental principle of German law. In principle, this appeal could also be interpreted as inciting kidnapping. After all, otherwise, how could these two men be handed over to a police station, prosecutor's office, or people's committee? People's committees don't even exist in Germany.

German police and the German Foreign Ministry have been notified of this violation of German law.

Beide Männer leben in Deutschland unter Polizeischutz und werden nicht nach Vietnam ausgeliefert. Einer von ihnen ist sogar deutscher Staatsbürger.

Both men live in Germany under police protection and will not be extradited to Vietnam. One of them is even a German citizen.

Schauprozess in Vietnam: 17 Jahre Haft für vietnamesische Journalisten

Am Mittwoch wurden fünf Journalisten in Hanoi zu langen Haftstrafen verurteilt. Zwei von ihnen leben in Deutschland unter Polizeischutz.

taz.de

I give you a tip: don’t support him, don’t support such people. You are on internet, authorities in Germany and Vietnam can read your negativity, your stupidity.

None of your concern. On this one, I do have the right to tell you to shut up.

 

[Yellow is Okay]

NIO sold only 1 car in January in Germany, only one car, so what do you say to NIO sales performance? Why don’t you or that guy jump in and post some fake news? Maybe you can make some money with youtube.

I don't care about Nio. I care that VinFast has been closing their showrooms in Germany and the US, and that dealers have been shut down, which again I don't see you post here.

 

[Yellow is Okay]

Vinfast is not closing, it changed from the showroom model to dealership model in the US, in Germany. You are just too blind to see that. That’s normal business operation, if one model doesn’t work, you switch to other model.
I mentioned NIO as example to show how blind and biased you are. I can name other brands.

Per Automotive News, 2025 has been particularly rough for VinFast. Sales in the US have seen a steep decline, reporting a drop of 57% year-on-year as of October. Less than 1,500 have been sold in 2025, and direct-sale stores have been closing down.

In California, the company has closed all its direct-sale stores and gone for franchising instead. Two dealers also packed up shop in the last six months in the Golden State, and another one closed in North Carolina. A third California dealer will be exiting by the end of the year, bringing the total to four. Meanwhile, in Canada, half of the ten stores are now out of business. VinFast’s dreams of making a splash in North America are starting to look bleak.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/vinfasts-u-s-meltdown-sales-collapse-57-as-dealers-shut-down

You truly are a walking fake-news generator, misinformed, and constantly rewriting reality. It's honestly no different from the kind of propaganda machine you keep accusing Russia of being. How many times have I caught you lying at this point? Even in the posts above, after I posted reporting straight from the guy himself and German news sources, you still brushed it off and went right back to repeating the same false claims like nothing happened.

 

[Yellow is Okay]

You are a boring guy. In business it’s called downsizing, not closing down. Plz learn the difference. Nothing special. If a model doesn’t work out, the company changes the model. If a market shrinks or expands then the company shrinks and expands.

Vinfast is not closing, it changed from the showroom model to dealership model in the US, in Germany.

You're not just boring, you're dishonest. First you said they changed their business model, then when their dealers have been shutting down too, you tried to spin that as "downsizing". Nice try moving the goalposts.

You have a problem you don’t use your brain you waste your time you pick some random news from internet,

Not as much as you. Finding stupid sources and articles, no one here beats you and you don't even use your brain to read or watch Vietnamese.

or from a criminal, a convict and you believe to them.

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According to whom, exactly?

Vietnam has publicly issued arrest warrants for Le Trung Khoa (Berlin) and Nguyen Van Dai (Hesse), both residing in Germany, since Friday. They are accused of "producing, possessing, distributing, or transferring information, documents, and materials against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam." This relates to their journalistic activities.

The Vietnamese authorities knew that both men lived in Germany and that Le Trung Khoa was a German citizen. However, they still published their last known place of residence in Vietnam and declared them as Vietnamese citizens. Mr. Le could not renounce his Vietnamese citizenship when he obtained German citizenship in 2024 because the Vietnamese Embassy in Berlin refused all consular services to him. Therefore, he holds dual citizenship.

By issuing this arrest warrant, Vietnam is violating German law. They wrote: "Anyone who identifies the whereabouts of the defendants Nguyen Van Dai or Le Trung Khoa is permitted to arrest them immediately and bring them to the nearest police station, prosecutor's office, or people's committee." However, Vietnam knows that both men live in Germany. In Germany, only German police are authorized to make arrests. With this appeal, Vietnam is inciting its citizens to disregard this fundamental principle of German law. In principle, this appeal could also be interpreted as inciting kidnapping. After all, otherwise, how could these two men be handed over to a police station, prosecutor's office, or people's committee? People's committees don't even exist in Germany.

German police and the German Foreign Ministry have been notified of this violation of German law.

Beide Männer leben in Deutschland unter Polizeischutz und werden nicht nach Vietnam ausgeliefert. Einer von ihnen ist sogar deutscher Staatsbürger.

Both men live in Germany under police protection and will not be extradited to Vietnam. One of them is even a German citizen.

https://taz.de/Schauprozess-in-Vietnam/!6142084/

 

[Nimble]

Vietnam is the only power in this world that defeated 2 super powers alone.... America and China....

But unexpectedly it didn't keep it's army modern to the today's standard and they are now far more outdated army with very small numbers of offensive weapons....

Vietnam is just like India of south east Asia.... slow and procrastinating procurements..... see both India and Vietnam today suffer due to the lack modern warfare systems.....

Previously Thailand used to feel afraid of Vietnam but now Thailand has gone far ahead of Vietnam when it comes to modern military.....

 

[Yellow is Okay]

How much you earn when you post bad news on Vinfast? The other day you said bad thing on Viettel. a long way to buy a Mercedes.

I don't earn anything from these posts. I just don't want to see your cheap propaganda here. Got it? Hate for this company has been rising in Vietnam, both in Hanoi and HCM. You should have done your homework better, you cheap propagandist.

You should stop such nonsense. Otherwise the Mods can jump in.

You literally called it a win-win and said I should post what I want since you can post what you want, right? I'm posting facts, and I actually have sources to back them up. Do you have anything even remotely similar? Because if I remember correctly, you don't have a single ONE. You just keep calling everything "fake news".

This shit talk already consumes too many pages.

So you're going to beat around the bush again? Give your sources here to back up your claims or I will keep calling you a liar and a clown.

 

[Viet]

Board of Peace meeting in US next week, sources say​

By Reuters
February 12, 202610:52 AM GMT+1Updated 20 hours ago

Vietnam's Communist Party chief To Lam in New York City, U.S., September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo

HANOI, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Vietnam's top leader, To Lam, plans to travel to the United States next week to attend the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, the initiative launched by U.S. President Donald Trump to address global conflicts, according to two people briefed on the matter and a document reviewed by Reuters.
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• The visit would be Lam's first to the United States since his confirmation in January as chief of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party.
• The sources, who declined to be named because the information was not public, said the visit could also include announcements on aviation-related commercial agreements.
• Vietnam and the U.S. are negotiating a trade deal after Washington imposed 20% tariffs on Vietnamese goods in August, though it is unclear whether any progress is likely next week.
• The two sides held their sixth round of trade negotiations last week but announced no commercial agreement afterwards.
• Vietnam's foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment on the visit.
• The first Board of Peace leaders meeting is to be held in Washington on February 19, according to a U.S. official.
• Vietnam announced on January 18 that it had accepted an invitation to join the Board of Peace as a founding member, saying in its acceptance letter sent to Trump that "Vietnam believes that the establishment of the Board of Peace is a necessary step in implementing the Gaza Strip Peace Plan."

 

[Viet]

Growth Projections​

• PRESS RELEASE
• DATA VIEW

Vietnam and China Poised to Lead Global Growth in New Harvard Growth Lab Projections​

Asian Economies Dominate Economic Complexity Rankings; US dip reflects long-term shift from manufacturing

Atlas of Economic Complexity

ContactChuck McKenney[email protected]http://atlas.hks.harvard.edu
February 11, 2026 2 min read

New projections from the Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School suggest that Vietnam and China are positioned to lead global growth in the decade ahead, driven by their sophisticated and diverse manufacturing capabilities.

The findings, released in the latest Atlas of Economic Complexity using 2024 data, forecast that economies that have built complex productive capabilities will drive the world’s economic expansion for the coming decade, even as rising trade tensions threaten to disrupt their growth trajectories.

Vietnam is projected to lead all nations in GDP per capita growth, followed closely by China, a remarkable forecast for the world’s second-largest economy. “Vietnam and China remain more complex than expected for their income level, so they will continue to lead global growth in the coming decade,” said Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Growth Lab, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the leading researcher of The Atlas of Economic Complexity. “Countries that have diversified their production into more complex sectors are those that will lead global growth.”

The growth projections are grounded in the Growth Lab’s Economic Complexity Index (ECI), which captures the diversity and sophistication of the productive capabilities embedded in each country’s exports. The research finds that ECI closely explains differences in country incomes today—and predicts future growth. Countries whose economic complexity exceeds what would be expected for their current income levels are best positioned for rapid economic growth.

Growth over the coming decade is projected to concentrate in three global poles: East Asia, Central Asia, and East Africa. Several Asian economies already hold the necessary economic complexity to drive the fastest growth through 2034, led by Vietnam, China, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India. Central Asia and Baltic countries hold strong growth potential from their continued advances in economic complexity, with Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, and Latvia all ranking in the projected top 15 economies on a per capita basis.

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[Viet]

Vietnam is the only power in this world that defeated 2 super powers alone.... America and China....

But unexpectedly it didn't keep it's army modern to the today's standard and they are now far more outdated army with very small numbers of offensive weapons....

Vietnam is just like India of south east Asia.... slow and procrastinating procurements..... see both India and Vietnam today suffer due to the lack modern warfare systems.....

Previously Thailand used to feel afraid of Vietnam but now Thailand has gone far ahead of Vietnam when it comes to modern military.....

Vietnam’s victory monument over Siam of 1785
Thailand eased to exist as threat.

 

[Viet]

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[Yellow is Okay]

You do badmouthing for free? Then congrats, you are cheaper than I thought.

He is sentenced in prison and money fines by both German and Vietnam courts. If he repeats the offense he can be kicked out of Germany in worst case scenario.

I give you a tip: don’t support him, don’t support such people. You are on internet, authorities in Germany and Vietnam can read your negativity, your stupidity.

I begin to believe you are a cheap clone. you repeat the same shit over and over again.

Instead of being proud of a national car manufacturer, you support people that intentionally pour shit on the company. You believe to articles of questionable intent. You discuss with me about my Vietnamese language. What you want?

You are a boring guy. In business it’s called downsizing, not closing down. Plz learn the difference. Nothing special. If a model doesn’t work out, the company changes the model. If a market shrinks or expands then the company shrinks and expands.
You have a problem you don’t use your brain you waste your time you pick some random news from internet, or from a criminal, a convict and you believe to them.

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Shameless clown. You're the one who started insulting people first. You're constantly getting called out for pushing cheap propaganda, and now you're questioning others? What have you added to this argument so far besides cheap propaganda and stupid articles?

Yes, I did say, you should post but it turns out your focus is only badmouth Vinfast, Viettel and many things more about Vietnam. I post positive things, you post negative. I want Vinfast to sell more cars, you want them to sell less. You dig in dirts and throw around. You hate them? Why? What’s the heck?

Are you a real person or a cheap clone?

Those are FACTS and it has been happening on the ground. "Dealers" are getting closed left and right. Don't try to gaslight people with propaganda about "changing the model" or "downsizing", you clown, and that stupid factory was never even intended to be built in the first place. Cheap and shameless propagandist, still trying to deflect and deny what's actually happening. Truly shameless. At this point, I'm honestly considering telling the mod to ban you for constantly rewriting reality, you clown.

 

[Musings]

Enough personal attacks. Stay on topic

 

[Nimble]

Vietnam’s victory monument over Siam of 1785
Thailand eased to exist as threat.

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My friend this is almost 2 .5 century back.... today Thailand is no pushover....

 

[Viet]

Xinhua reporting from Nanning on 14 February shows that the daily China–Vietnam international passenger service running between Nanning (Guangxi) and Hanoi has operated at 100 percent seat occupancy throughout the Spring Festival travel rush. The route, relaunched in May 2025 after a pandemic hiatus, has now completed roughly 200 round trips, carrying nearly 20,000 passengers in eight months.

Rail officials attribute the spike to simplified e-ticketing, coordinated border inspections that have cut clearance time to 30 minutes, and aggressive promotional fares—CNY 608 one-way in soft-seat class. Vietnamese tour operators have booked group allocations weeks in advance, while Chinese SMEs use the service to reach Hanoi’s Thang Long Industrial Park for supplier meetings, avoiding peak-season airfares that have risen by 35 percent.

The surge highlights the growing role of cross-border rail in China’s “dual circulation” strategy and aligns with Beijing’s push to internationalise regional rail corridors under the Pan-Beibu Gulf economic cooperation framework. For exporters shipping high-value components, the passenger train’s baggage car offers a same-day courier alternative, with customs processing done en route—a feature popular among electronics firms in Shenzhen and Bac Ninh.

Capacity constraints remain: only one round trip operates daily, and berth accommodation is limited. China Railway International says it is studying an evening departure and through-coaches to Guangzhou. Until then, corporate mobility planners should secure tickets early and be prepared for sold-out dates around 20–22 February when return traffic peaks.

To streamline the paperwork side of any Nanning-Hanoi journey, travelers can turn to VisaHQ, whose China portal (https://www.visahq.com/china/) simplifies applications for Vietnamese e-visas and dozens of other destinations. The platform pre-checks documents, tracks processing deadlines, and offers live support, reducing the risk of last-minute border surprises.

Travellers must carry valid visas (Vietnam offers e-visas for Chinese nationals) and complete health declarations on both sides. Luggage screening adheres to aviation-style restrictions—power banks over 100 Wh are prohibited—and fines for undeclared fresh produce have doubled this season as authorities tighten biosecurity.

 

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