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[ety]

If Vietnamese wanted to blindly follow the westernization, then you would have completely lost your identity akin to Philippines.

They likely to follow whomever they think is the strongest as in the case of Soviet Union and China split decades ago, they thought USSR was much stronger than China and so chose to side with the former.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

They likely to follow whomever they think is the strongest as in the case of Soviet Union and China split decades ago, they thought USSR was much stronger than China and so chose to side with the former.

Yep, from USSR to USA.

Most Asian countries are brainwashed by white men.

Just look at our cousins from Singapore, they are still staunchly diehard US supporters as long as their master still remains intact.

 

[Viet]

They likely to follow whomever they think is the strongest as in the case of Soviet Union and China split decades ago, they thought USSR was much stronger than China and so chose to side with the former.

You can blame yourself. this “submission to the strongest” policy came from China. You can look into your books.
But no worry, after the war of 1979 Vietnam has abandoned this policy and adopt the policy of neutrality. In practice that means China and US have the same weight 50:50.
I can’t tell for Japan, Korea, or Singapore. They go a different way. Probably they haven’t gone thru the aftermath the Vietnamese have gone thru.

 

[ety]

You can blame yourself. this “submission to the strongest” policy came from China. You can look into your books.
But no worry, after the war of 1979 Vietnam has abandoned this policy and adopt the policy of neutrality. In practice that means China and US have the same weight 50:50.
I can’t tell for Japan, Korea, or Singapore. They go a different way. Probably they haven’t gone thru the aftermath the Vietnamese have gone thru.

China in history has not really practiced submission to the strongest since China is the strongest nation in East Asia for long time, I dont know why you blame it as a Chinese tradition. Even in WW II and Maos time, China didnt submit to much stronger Japan and later USSR. Vietnam submitted to the stronger China in history doesnt mean your practice is Chinese. But, that only being pratical and sensible of Vietnam since China is your biggest neighbor by far, always think geopolitics first, you people forgot such reality in the 70s and 80s.

 

[Viet]

China in history has not really practiced submission to the strongest since China is the strongest nation in East Asia for long time, I dont know why you blame it as a Chinese tradition. Even in WW II and Maos time, China didnt submit to much stronger Japan and later USSR. Vietnam submitted to the stronger China in history doesnt mean your practice is Chinese. But, that only being pratical and sensible of Vietnam since China is your biggest neighbor by far, always think geopolitics first, you people forgot such reality in the 70s and 80s.

I mean that applies to countries as Vietnam and Korea, and some other aliens as Siam and Laos. Japan is a special case although they have the same state doctrine. China had been the king of the jungle for 2,000 years. That changed with the arrival of the western powers. In the case of Vietnam the USSR as dominant military power.

 

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Vietnamese army television
Review “made in Vietnam” campaign 2025 and look ahead 2026

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SOURCE / GT VOICE
GT Voice: Surge in Vietnam’s exports to China points to potential in deepening regional industrial ties
By Global Times Published: Mar 03, 2026 11:14 PM


Illustration: Xia Qing/GT


Vietnam’s exports to China surged 70.8 percent year-on-year to $6.32 billion in January 2026, latest trade data released by Vietnam Customs showed on Tuesday.

Amid an increasingly complex global trade environment, the data underscored not only the enduring synergy between China and Vietnam, but also the trade potential emerging from deeper regional industrial integration.

Among Vietnam's four largest export categories, its exports of telephones, mobile phones and parts to China reached $1.04 billion in January, a dramatic year-on-year increase of 117 percent, while exports of the same products to the US declined 7.2 percent year-on-year. Meanwhile, China’s imports of computers, electrical products, spare parts and components from Vietnam also surged 63.1 percent during the same period.

The robust growth in these electronics categories collectively forms the core engine behind the spike in China's imports from Vietnam. Underpinning this growth is the deepening synergy between the Chinese and Vietnamese electronics industries. A significant portion of the electronic products Vietnam ships to China are not final consumer goods; rather, they flow back into China's industrial chain as intermediate products. They either undergo final precision processing in China or are integrated into more complex product systems.

This production collaboration has fostered a regional industrial chain built on comparative advantages: Vietnam, leveraging its labor cost advantages and manufacturing hub policies, takes on specific roles like assembly and production of basic components. China, with its comprehensive industrial system and technological expertise, focuses on higher-value segments such as core technology R&D and advanced manufacturing. Through efficient cooperation, both countries enhance the overall efficiency of the regional industrial chain, laying a solid foundation for trade growth.

Moreover, the deepening industrial chain cooperation also opens new avenues for both nations to climb the value chain. For China, the growing import of Vietnamese electronics parts reflects a stable demand within its domestic manufacturing sector for diversified, cost-effective intermediate goods. This helps maintain the cost competitiveness and supply chain flexibility of its vast manufacturing base. For Vietnam, being deeply embedded in regional production networks provides a stable and convenient channel into the global division of labor. Evolving from simple processing to undertaking progressively sophisticated component production, Vietnam's manufacturing sector accumulates technical expertise and trains its workforce, thereby building capacity for future industrial upgrading.

In the past, Southeast Asian production networks were primarily oriented toward Western markets. Today, as an ultra-large-scale market, China’s import demand has itself become an important driving force for regional trade growth. The trade data in January 2026 has precisely confirmed this point: amid global demand fluctuations and a complex external environment, the intra-regional trade flow between China and Vietnam still demonstrates resilience and vitality.

Currently, the global trade landscape is fraught with complexity and change. Factors such as uncertainties in US trade policy and geopolitical shifts exert significant pressure on Southeast Asia's export-oriented economies. In this context, the trade opportunities emerging from deepening regional industrial chain cooperation reveal their unique value. These opportunities, catalyzed by deeper industrial chain ties, may not just happen in the electronics sector; they also hold the potential to radiate across the entire regional trade system, propelling it toward higher quality and greater resilience.

In conclusion, behind the surge in Vietnam’s exports to China, what we see is not merely a set of impressive data for a single month, but the vast trade potential unleashed by regional industrial ties. This potential stems from rational collaboration between China and Vietnam based on their comparative advantages, the synergistic resilience forged through interconnected industrial chains, and the enabling environment of regional trade facilitation arrangements such as the RCEP. At a time of escalating global demand volatility, the collaborative framework established through these deepening ties is providing new momentum and opportunities for sustained trade growth.

 

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“Tran hung Dao” Victory monuments over the Mongol arny of 1288

 

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Trump opens for Vietnam the chip door he locked on China​

Washington’s move to lift export controls could turn Vietnam from a chip assembly hub into a manufacturing partner — and a strategic alternative to China.

Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
By INDRANIL GHOSH
2 MARCH 2026
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• Trump promised to remove Vietnam from chip technology export control list.
• Vietnam started work on its first chip factory five weeks before the deal.
• Major semiconductor makers already assemble and package chips in the country.

The U.S. is helping Vietnam build a chip industry designed to replace that of China.

On February 20, President Donald Trump said he would remove Vietnam from a strategic export control list that blocks the country from buying advanced technology from U.S. companies. Trump also reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to a “strong, independent, self-reliant, and prosperous” Vietnam.

Vietnam has sat on the restricted lists — along with China, Russia, and North Korea — since the Cold War. The removal would clear the way for Vietnam to move beyond assembling and packaging chips to manufacturing them, repositioning it as a chip industry partner for the U.S.

“For the semiconductor supply chain, this decision signals a transition for Vietnam from a back-end assembly hub to an upstream manufacturing and design partner,” Sujai Shivakumar, director of the Renewing American Innovation project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, told Rest of World. “The U.S. is clearing the path for Hanoi to acquire high-end American tools and software essential for advanced chipmaking.”

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The Joe Biden administration elevated Vietnam to a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2023. Trump has continued where Biden left off.

The U.S. is clearing the path for Hanoi to acquire high-end American tools.”

“Each time I come back, I am genuinely impressed by the progress you have made,” John Neuffer, president of the Washington-based Semiconductor Industry Association, told Vietnamese officials during a January visit to Hanoi to attend a chip conference. He named Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm, Amkor, and Marvell as SIA members already on the ground in Vietnam.

To Lam, Vietnam’s top leader, flew to Washington on February 20 and secured Trump’s promise to remove the country from export control lists. Five weeks earlier, he had attended a groundbreaking ceremony in Hanoi for Vietnam’s first domestically owned chip fabrication plant.

Run by state-owned giant Viettel, the facility aims to start trial production by late 2027, making 32-nanometer chips, the kind that power cars, telecom networks, and industrial equipment. Rather than chase the most advanced chips, now made at 2 or 3 nanometers, Vietnam is focused on building an industry from scratch.

The Viettel plant was part of a wider blitz. On January 15, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met Eduard Stiphout, a senior vice president at ASML, the Dutch company that makes the machines needed to produce advanced chips. The U.S. has pressured the Netherlands to stop selling ASML’s most powerful equipment to China, making the meeting a pointed signal from Hanoi.

Two days later, Finance Minister Nguyen Van Thang held a separate meeting with the same ASML delegation, discussing a training center and an official company presence in Vietnam. The speed of the run-up, from breaking ground to ASML meetings to a White House sit-down, suggested a coordinated campaign timed to give To Lam maximum leverage in Washington.

Vietnam has about 7,000 chip engineers today and wants 50,000 by 2030, according to government targets. Qualcomm has opened its third-largest global research center in the country, and Amkor has invested $1.6 billion in a packaging plant, its largest anywhere. Analysts expect the country’s share of global chip packaging to rise to almost 9% by 2032 from 1% in 2022.

While the chip commitment was one of several deals struck during To Lam’s Washington visit, it was the one with the longest horizon. Building a chip industry takes decades of investment, training, and infrastructure.

“The move reflects Washington’s effort to position Vietnam as a key Indo-Pacific counterweight to China,” Shivakumar said.

For the U.S., Vietnam is about building alternatives to China, and for Vietnam, it is about winning a seat at the table of the world’s most valuable industry. Every country caught between Washington and Beijing is now studying Hanoi’s move, wondering how to make one of its own.

 

[Viet]

1 alien atom impurity per 1 billion silicone atoms. Making advanced computer ships is the most difficult ever, probably more difficult than landing on the Moon

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Small thing changes the perception.
After a Thai tourist video goes viral, the people Thailand are surprised.
Vietnam major cities move all electric cables to underground, Thailand meanwhile continues sticking to spaghetti street cables.

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VF Lac Hong 800S, 900S series
That’s something for the rich who seek alternative to Mercedes S class.

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Vinfast reveals Lac Hong 900S and 800S luxury models

Vinfast has also structured the company into three automotive brand lines to cater to varied customer segments.

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First meal in the army

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