Title states all, Vietnam is a country that fought for it's independence, fought off multiple invaders including 2 industrialized western superpower nations, and now is one of the fastest growing economies in East Asia and is generally speaking seen as a positive nation on the global stage, without all of the baggage that China or North Korea carry. Obviously this is an abridged understanding of Vietnam but on paper it looks good, unless there's some brave posters willing to tell me otherwise?

-7DeadlyFetishes

    • PhaseFour [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      people who are very very very very sceptical of china’s economic model turning around and being all positive about vietnam as a socialist project always struck to me as increadibly incoherent

      The US is not trying to heighten tensions with Vietnam right now. This incoherence demonstrates how good the State Department is at shaping Left-wing discourse.

      • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Xi moving against market reforms basically. Reenforcing state control over key industries, increasing power of communist party cadres at large private firms, anticorruption campaign, etc.

      • ChavistaGang [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        In addition to what hagensfohawk said, the CPC under Xi has been substantially increasing the amount of supply and marketing cooperatives to cover over 95% of villages and townships as of 2018 (was only 56% in 2012) as well as broadening their scope of services to other industries. There hasn't been such an emphasis on these cooperatives since the Mao era. Public services like healthcare are also being strengthened with the recent reestablishment of a universal healthcare system although it’s not totally free at point of service yet.

        Xi called on the Communist Party’s state-owned enterprises to become “stronger, better and larger” and that “they form the economic and political foundation of China’s socialist system and are a key pillar for the Party’s rule” also adding that the state sector’s role “cannot be negated nor weakened”. He also stated that the state-owned enterprises have proven their worth in “both pandemic control and industrial production.” 44 high-tech companies have also been recently nationalized.

        There has been a new campaign to purge corrupt capitalist roaders in the party, censor liberal economists like Mao Yushi and Sheng Hong who attack China’s publicly-owned enterprises, and to even shut down their neoliberal organizations like the Unirule Institute of Economics.

          • ChavistaGang [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            It was part of the Healthy China 2020 government initiative. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-06-14/Why-can-China-provide-1-4-billion-people-with-healthcare-coverage--HwhyDMAOdi/index.html

            According to a CPC member who did a recent AMA:

            On Medicare. China has a universal healthcare system, but previously a lot of workers and farmers don't have access to it. ( it was complicated to register for it). Xi in term simplified the procedure. He also kept the prices of going to hospital pretty low ( you can easily afford it even if you are poor as long as you don't have very major conditions.)