As a Yank living in Ho Chi Minh City, you may be surprised by things here now.
I was. It does not have the nightlife of Bangkok or Phnom Penh, but I like it. Quite a bit, actually.
55,000 Americans died trying to help the Vietnamese people.
The Chinese are relocating their factories to Vietnam because they work so cheap.
We could have saved 55,000 lives by giving the Communists some limousines and their own Palace.
Let’s send McCain back, he can reconnect with his old Viet Cong buddies.
There's a high bar to clear.
My son is serving aboard that carrier.
This is driven by Chinese aggression and expansion. Everyone in the region is looking for allies against the Chinese threat.
There is a solidifying military alliance called the Quad, consisting of the USA, Japan, India and Australia; that is already pretty far down the road of preparing to cooperate militarily to contain/restrain Chinese aggression.
Vietnam is right on the front line with China. They had a shooting war in 1979, because of Vietnam overthrowing China’s Khmer Rouge allies in Cambodia. Its been tense ever since, and now China is trying to claim Vietnam’s waters off the coast.
China has been driving everyone into a coalition against China.
Please show us the food. HCMC is supposed to be foodie heaven.
Have a Vietnamese wife, Five Year Visa and live in Q8 when we go visit her relatives for a couple of weeks each year.
Wife’s sister wants us to come live there. Just might do that as I’m getting old.