“What’s funny is that today, Vietnam, despite the government, is one of the most pro-Capitalist countries on the planet.”
I keep telling people that there is no conflict between Capitalism and communism. There are millions of rich communists who made their millions by way of Capitalism.
The conflict is between communism and Constitutional Republicanism but some people are so self-delusional that they simply cannot be convinced. My self-described, genius.....stepson was one of them.
I also suspect that as Vietnam was a Soviet client, the fall of the Soviet Union, suddenly brought back their fears of the ChiComs.
As Ho Chi Minh said, “I’d rather smell French merde for five years, than Chinese merde for a thousand.”