@Viet, I agree with mike2000, VN needs to completely move over to the Indian and western camp. The west introduced VN to real medicine and quoc ngu while the Chinese burnt VN history books and introduced fake traditional herbal medicines.
Look at this forum and see for yourself who are more friendlier to Viet members, West/Indians members or the PRC chinese members?
I encourage @Hu Songshan to move all Vietnamese related threads to the South Asia section. Several Chinese members had already proposed this idea. There will be less trolling.
See here, when I look at these Vietnamese pictures and drawings, I can mistaken them for some Indian tribe:
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@Viet, you should celebrate Diwali, not Tet.
Well my friend Black flag.lol Lets not get ahead of ourselves. I didnt mean Vietnam has to move to South Asia or whatever, for its doesnt belong to South Asia at all, Vietnam is still a south east Asian country and with much more similarities with its east Asian peers of which China is the main one(both culturally, and politically). The sad truth is that you cant change your culture/ethnic origin/where you are born or who you are, no matter how much you try.
What i meant was that Vietnam should look up for its own interests and only its interests like any country should do. Very often i think Vietnam is not doing this simply because its afraid of annoying its long time Patron Russia(its a similar case with India, albeit to a lesser degree). As i said Countries dont have 'Friends' and never will, its all about interests. So a country can/will Change its alliance with another as their interests/world view changes. It was the case during the Sino-soviet split and after the fall of Soviet Union, China and Russia interests both converge now reason they are coming closer and closer together to challenge the 'evil/hegemonistic' west and same with U.S-Japan relations from nemensis/bitter ennemies before the war to closeallies after world war II until today(again things might change in future), etc. Interests are always paramount over anything else. So if Vietnam's interests will be better served by it getting closer to the U.S/West then so be it, Vietnam shouldnt think it owes anything to Russia. It should forge its foreign policies independently of Moscow, same with India. However both country can still carry on trading with each , since Trade/Business should be seperated from Politics/alliances, just like China-U.S or China- Japan trade, who despite still being fierce rivals(or ennemies some will say) they still trade with each other more than any country on planet earth.
So other smaller countries shouldnt be fooled by all the noise/posture China, U.S, Japan make, for despite all these they still carry on with their business like nothing happen and keep growing more and more together, so other countries in the region: India, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam, Bengladesh etc shouldnt fall for all this trick/rhethoric, they should learn to seperate business from politics and improve their trade/living standards irregardless of the country they trade with. So Vietnam shouldn't stop/damage its trade with China and Russia even if it allies/comes closer to the West/U.S/Japan. These are two different things
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