Did america getting its ass kicked mean friendship? I hear alot that vietnam likes america more than china which doesnt sit right with me is that actually true, also they like america but hate the french? I heard vietnam be called the mexico of asia. Maybe its my own personal left wing bias but I literally cannot see any reason why vietnam would respect america and hate china.

  • ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Combine that with the Vietnamese-Americans who maintain relations with their families in the mother country (the fact that many of them fled the South because they were afraid of the Communists redistributing their land is water under the bridge by now), and you have a recipe for a lot of soft power to build up in a very short amount of tim

    You also weirdly have a lot of Vietamese diaspora that are from the post-war period and not necessarily anti-communist, rather leaving Vietnam to try and send money home, because it was (like China) very poor and struggled with sanctions and embargos. Like how the twitter poster Samoyedcore’s grandfather was actually a Colonel in the PAVN and war hero, but he lives in LA.