VN Q 1 to US ---abt 20 %, but it will change when Vn can export more to TPP nations.
Thank you, my friend, so, at least for now, Vietnam is dependent on the US market, as well, as much, if not more, as China does.
Then, our task is to reduce it. China has its BRI for that purpose. And you say TPP is Viatnam's golden egg laying goose (although it has not started to lay eggs yet, but you seem to have already begun counting them).
Vietnam should keep the following two in vision:
1. There is a BRI right next door. Work to be an essential cog in the BRI machine.
2. Keep in mind that most TPP countries (at least those with developed economies) are US vassals. How much could Vietnam trust a vassal given that they hardly have a mind of their own?
- "might make right" bro, US need CN remain as good maid since 1979 to clean her dirty trash, so US will force CN's partner to stop helping CN get stronger and help CN quit that Maid job. See how US forces EU to slap sanction on Russia and learn, bro.
Brother, might makes right, indeed. That's what we all aim for. Past is past. Do you know in 1979 China's GDP was smaller than that of India? Heck, even in the 1990s, India had a larger GDP.
I agree that the US will ask her vassals to attempt to hurt China's interests. But that would not be new to China, actually. The US does not even give China market economy status.
And, indeed, the Russian case is a strong historical precedent. If what happened to Libya may happen to a developing weak country, what is happening to Russia (although the outcome would not be the same) may happen to China, as well, in terms of concerted Western hostility.
Even German also need CN to dump her trash, so why should german help CN get rich ??
China finally stopped receiving reusable trash from the rest of the world, plastic, paper and metals, my friend. That was the bitter reality we needed to accept. But, now, it is over.