Re:Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @10:18AM
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Vietnam is a fairly large country (90 million people) that has a lot of potential. They are also next in line for decelopkent, and China antagonizes them enough to put them in the USA’s sphere of influence. Besides, China isn’t interesting in importing the goods Vietnam manufactures.
Re:Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views'
by amgin3 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:44AM
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Japan, China, and Korea are all heavily investing in Vietnam as well. In HCMC, Japan is building the first of nine rapid transit metro lines in the city, and in Hanoi China is doing the same.
The US will import about $50 billion worth of goods from Vietnam in 2017. That's up from $10 billion a decade ago.
That's equal to 25% of Vietnam's entire GDP.
It's also almost entirely one way, it's about as pure of a trade deficit as they get, so Vietnam is being doused with USD capital the same way China was in the early days of its growth boom. That's going to get a lot more dramatic yet, as the US wants some other large partners to work with in the region. For Vietnam's part, they seem perfectly happy to take the trade & capital inflow and put it to use rapidly expanding their economy.