Chinese students miss out on early places at MIT but what’s to blame for the change in fortune?

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Vietnamese are makers. We are engineers, producers. We are not inventors. We make things happen. We win wars. You invented gunpowder but we made rifles. We created infantry. We crushed the one million men Mongol army. We annihilated Champa, Khmer, Siam. When did you win a war against foreign army?

You didn't make rifles lol. China and USSR did. You're right that you aren't inventors though.

You only fought enemies in your own country. Win or lose, it's still just the difference between losing less and losing more.

It's funny how you have to go back 1000 years for a win.