There is a difference now. America is watching and the VCs feel that intensely. America's approval is VN's key to the modern world and their security against China.The bosses probably understand that some political democracy is inevitible and necessary but they are quite at a loss as to how to design( and this sort cannot imagine not "designing" it) it withour losing their own positions. It is contradictory. I hope what what is happening there now will play out in the manner that it did in Korea. The government is not that much different from Park Chung Hee's government. We had more immediate leverage in Korea but it is pretty strong in VN also. I hope we are making our views forcefully known to the VCs.
No deals with Charlie!