Vietnam tries to maintain friendly relations with as many countries as possible to improve our own material conditions and maintain peace and stability so we can build better material conditions for our people.
We have very firmly made it clear that we will not join forces with ANY nation against any other nation. Vietnam is still a developing country, and we are not in a position to make such alliances, nor would they align with our internationalist values.
The USA may see itself as steering us into an "anti-China" position, and they can think that all they want, but we won't be goaded. We will work with the USA with hopes for peace and mutual benefit but we will do so on our own terms.
This is why I don't feel comfortable discussing China in front of white people. I now have white people I don't know DMing me on my personal Facebook (which is not public) trying to stoke conflict about China based on Tweets that are years old AND being read in bad faith.
The truth is Vietnam has a complicated relationship with China and Vietnamese people have complicated perceptions of China. But calling us "anti-China" is reductive. Many white Westerners seem to love stoking conflict between BIPOC people and this is what's happening here.
I suggest you ask yourself the real reasons you are so curious about China/Vietnam relations. Examine your motives deeply. Is it really your place to interrogate us like this about complex history and relations you don't deeply understand? I beg you to focus on your own problems.
She visited the place where Jon McCain was shot, the dude who literally bombed Vietnam 22 times, a war criminal and a liar, on the freaking brithday of Vo Nguyen Giap!!!!
So much for "America is back".
They they expect Vietnam to side with the US?! Lol DAY DREAM!!!
Ffs, this is a war monument! Not the John Maccain monument!
It literally says:
"26 October, 1967, on Truc Back lake, Hanoi people and army caught alive John MacCain - Mayor of the US Navy. He drove an A4 aircraft which was shot here, right above the Yen Phu Power Plant." 😂😂😂
And look at the statue of him, do you seriously think we built this to praise him?!!! Lol
The brave Viet Minh, who once defeated the mighty empires of France and the USA, now fight a new "glorious" battle.
This will be the picture that's remembered by their grandchildren. 😂
For people who don't know: this really is an important contribution soldiers are making. They are distributing free food and necessities for the poor as well as doing shopping and deliveries for people in lockdown across HCMC!
It's telling that when I post about how HCMC has helped all of the (relatively small number of) homeless people off the street, Western "leftists" only response is an accusatory "WHY WERE THERE HOMELESS PEOPLE"
Impossible standards: Even when we solve problems we get attacked.
They demand that we have an absolutely perfect society free of all problems, not just now, but *from the beginning*. Only idealist mindset can somehow twist getting every homeless person in one of the biggest cities on Earth shelter, food and healthcare in DAYS into a BAD THING.
Idealism: Rather than study and try to understand our historic development and current material conditions you fixate on metaphysical IDEAL, and once that standard is set, nobody can live up to it.