They rather like to fight China in SCS and others and are trying to prepare for it. I think they are not keen on integration with China.
Yes, peace is better than war, AI is the future, the problem is what Vietnam will bring into the equation, what China? Take automobiles and highspeed rail, Vietnam wants to catch up, so at this stage there is not much we can bring into the equation in terms of HSR and cars.
Hoping for this version. We want to learn how the VLS works
They do export the Gepard version with VLS. They have brought the version with VLS to many arms expo but no taker yet.
Having access to advanced technology or being well integrated into the ecosystem doesn't really matter much if you don't have a large enough market to sell into. That's why EVs have been possible in a way that AI and semiconductors probably won't be. The US simply doesn't dominate the EV industry the way they do in chips and advanced AI, so there's more room for others to conduct business. For example, VinFast can source components and sub-assemblies from China, assemble them, and export without running into the same kind of hard barriers. But I don't see that model working for AI or semiconductors. And last time I checked, China mostly buys agricultural products and raw natural resources from other countries, while your own industries tend to hollow out or bankrupt competitors in higher-value sectors. So the real question is how much actual demand, and for what kinds of products, can China realistically create for Vietnam? And countries like South Korea and Japan have every reason to want the US to stay dominant in these critical technologies because they themselves are deeply leveraged on American tech platforms and standards.
the Chinese have a different business model than most other economies do. they want to keep jobs and factories at home, they don´t move factories and jobs to cheaper labor countries and then import from there as part of supply chain.
