Rumor has it that black pajamas and straw hat were found in the south lawn rice paddy :) /jk Were they in John Kerry's size? :)
It isn't about Communists - WWII is not over in any of the countries Japan brutalized, and China is still mad at Britain over the Opium Wars. China is staging a five act drama over the THAAD deployment in South Korea and stirring up their native population with an anti-Korean propaganda campaign worthy of a CNN profile on Trump.
Vietnam would be a useful military ally in the region, and I think they would abandon the last vestiges of Communism far more quickly than China has if given the opening to do so. Have you seen Saigon, lately?
Have you seen Saigon, lately?
No. I would not have recognized it.
I’ve been to Saigon twice, in the early 90s. The second time was about a month after Clinton lifted the embargo. The tallest buildings were the old hotels — ten stories at most.
When you went to a sidewalk cafe, they gave you ancient thermos bottles of hot water to add to the drip coffee, usually rusted through on the bottom. The spoon you used to stir it was tiny and weighed nothing, made of cheap aluminum.
One thing that told me Vietnam was getting richer was when they started selling Vinacafe instant coffee sachets, and they were giving away pretty good quality stirring spoons in each bag.