Thats the only way for VN and other sub-Mekong nations to survive on this cruel planet bro.
They will survive with integration with greater economies; further integration among ASEAN + China + Japan + India + USA.
Not by some kind of Vietnamese version of 'Manifest Destiny'.
Thats the only way for VN and other sub-Mekong nations to survive on this cruel planet bro.
Vietnam's economy is literally 1/28th that of Japan's. We have prefectures whose combined GDP is larger than Vietnam's + Thailand's combined. China's Guangdong Province, alone, is richer than Vietnam + Laos + Cambodia + Thailand + Myanmar + Malaysia combined.
Its clear that China and Japan have greater capital to offer most of the 'submekong' ergo Laos and Cambodia.
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