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27 Aug, 9 tweets, 3 min read
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People keep asking me this, so here's my answer.

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.

vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/…
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.

portside.org/2021-04-12/pen…
International diplomacy is MASSIVELY COMPLICATED and Vietnam has to make very careful decisions about how we interface with the rest of the world. As dialectical materialists, we know that EVERY decision has infinite ripple effects. Every relation affects every other relation.
Even Ho Chi Minh sought friendly relations with the USA and France and other capitalist nations with the hopes of attaining peace and independence for Vietnam. There is no shame in pursuing peace and mutually beneficial relations with foreign nations -- ON OUR OWN TERMS.
Anyone who would essentialize our relationship as "very close allies" with the USA, implying that we are somehow favoring our relationship with the USA over our relations with any other country, needs to investigate more before speaking on our foreign policies.
For example, the day before our VP met with Kamala Harris, our president spoke to the president of Cuba to strengthen our ties and make important bilateral agreements, and to thank Cuba for sharing vaccine tech with us (we also shared food with them!)

en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnamese-cub…
Also, before Kamala landed in Vietnam, we thanked China for TWO MILLION doses of vaccines (twice what Harris offered) and assured we would continue friendly relations with China even as Kamala Harris' trip was underway.

e.vnexpress.net/news/news/viet…
If we were really "close allies" with the USA at the expense of our relationships with other nations, would we have been having those meetings literally simultaneously with having Harris visit Vietnam?

No investigation, no right to speak!

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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
27 Aug
Please, murica, come and take back what belong to you.
This comment is on my video where I talked about how my life was, under the US sanction.
What a fucking chauvinst.

These were what I talked about in the reply:
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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
26 Aug
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. ImageImageImage
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.
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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
25 Aug
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
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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
25 Aug
Vietnamese soldier deep behind enemy lines...
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!
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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
23 Aug
I'm living in Danang and my list has the exact same prices. And it's totaly affordable to most people.

We also ALWAYS have the option of free food if we cant afford it.
This is a proof that anti-communists have nothing to back up their agenda.

They had to lie to make a point and those lies are very pathetic and easy to be disproven.
Free food delivery:
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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
23 Aug
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.
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