Vietnam knows better who is buttering its bread...is now a partner in BRICS

 I think Vietnam knows better who is buttering its bread, despite all the chumminess that the USA is pretending to woo it. China is Vietnam's biggest trading partner. China was also Vietnam's supporter during the Indochina War against the French and the Vietnam War against the USA and its allies. China's all out support was not miniscule, despite China's less than rosy economic state itself.

Asians in general repay those who help them more than Anglo-Saxon Whites that take such help as a right and turn around to bite the helping hand of those who extended help. During the financial crisis of 2008, China went out of it way to help the USA turn the tide but faced all the animosity afterwards. This coming financial tsunami is not going to be repeated with China again extending a helping hand. Once bitten twice shy I would say.

On the other hand, the USA was supporting the French during the Indochina war against the North Vietnamese and was directly fighting the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. The war crimes the USA committed, and the destruction of the country. cannot just be forgotten and forgiven so easily.

Vietnam is now a partner in BRICS. Vietnam knows that going forward, the USA will erect more hurdles to keep out Vietnamese exports entering the USA, knowing that such exports have Chinese backgrounds. In the light of this, Vietnam knows that the Global South market is its more important target by joining BRICS.

Anonymous