[Jim Robinson]

Why would we want to allow goods manufactured by slave labor in Vietnam to be imported into the US? If they do this, slap the same tariff on Vietnam.

[ThanhPhero]

It is hardly slave labor. Vietnamese labor is gaining skills and improving productivity rapidly. The country is emulating Korea in the 80s and 90s. It is probably the most Americophile population outside of North America.

I did not go back there for two years between 2016 and 2018. In 16 there were cars in two yards in my town Cam Đức. In 18 there were many. The owners don't drive them much because the roads have not yet caught up with the increase in vehicles so the owners use them mostly to go up to Nha Trang or to go on vacation to Đà Lạt in the mountains. Finding a wife there is hard now. People are not anxious to leave or send their daughters to America as they were ten years ago. They see that the future for them is right there.

[central_va]

Why would we want to allow goods manufactured by slave labor in Vietnam to be imported into the US? If they do this, slap the same tariff on Vietnam.

+1

[cba123]

The difference is, China seems to be building an entire infrastructure to compete with and REPLACE America in every way.

Vietnam is not that way. It is not the same.

I lived in China 30 years ago. Even then it was vaguely threatening.

Vietnam is not the same. Not at all.