us-vietnam relations

  1. Meadmaker

    I've been watching Ken Burns' "The Vietnam War"

    I'm barely old enough to remember the Vietnam War. I was 10 years old when the peace accords were signed in 1973. So, I recognized a lot of the terms that were used to describe the war, like "Tet Offensive" and "Khe Sanh" and "Ho Chi Minh Trail" and all that, but I really couldn't put them...
  2. B

    Trump blocks reforms in Vietnam.

    Trump's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership has eliminated incentives for the Vietnamese government to improve social and political conditions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/how-a-trump-decision-on-trade-became-a-setback-for-democracy-in-vietnam/?noredirect=on...
  3. angrysoba

    Tensions Between Vietnam and China

    There are now protests in Vietnam against the Chinese embassy: This is interesting for me as someone I know has been working to buy up unused metal-hulled fishing boats in Japanese harbours to send them to Vietnam through an NGO, because apparently a lot of Vietnamese fishing boats are rammed...
  4. S

    Why Americans are not putting on trial their own Vietnam war criminals?

    I would like to ask everybody to discuss about why usually (always?) people of one nation do not ask for war criminals to be put on trial as war criminals if such war criminals are their own soldiers and the victims citizens of another (poor) country. A country may put their own war criminals on...
  5. a_unique_person

    30th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon

    http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/The-Vietnam-War-a-nightmare-still-vivid/2005/04/29/1114635749004.html Two million civilians dead, massive trauma for those who survived the war. Was it really worth it?
  6. J

    America's heroic defense of S. Vietnam halted the spread of communism out of Vietnam.

    America's heroic defense of South Vietnam stopped the spread of communism to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand . To see where I got this information from, see this page:http://www.vhfcn.org/stat.html What you will find on this page will totally change the way you...

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