Near the end of the Vietnam war, the US had practically won. Viet Cong were surrendering in record numbers, their main forces annihilated and their leaders begging for peace. Why would the US pull out when they had utterly crushed the Vietnamese?

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Original Question Near the end of the Vietnam war, the US had practically won. Viet Cong were surrendering in record numbers, their main forces annihilated and their leaders begging for peace. Why would the US pull out when they had utterly crushed the Vietnamese?

Well, first lets edit this for based on the history as the rest of the world knows it.

Question should be: Near the end of the Vietnam war, the US had practically won. Why would the US pull out when they had utterly crushed the Vietnamese?

Ah, that’s better.

Btw, we hadn’t utterly crushed them, but had made life much more intolerable than it had been the previous 7 years of open conflict. Enough so that the North Vietnamese were willing to negotiate an actual end.

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Do the Chinese who visit Vietnam, or who live in Vietnam, feel that Vietnam is similar to China?

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Tran Minh Ngoc (陳明玉) · Lives in Vietnam (1900–present)7y

I’m not Chinese but from other answers, it’s obvious they said yes.

This is what a Chinese told after visiting Da Nang and HCMC / Saigon:

“Being to Vietnam once, it was shocking to me how similar these two countries could be, from Ming style Buddhist temple to aunties doing square dance at night. Sometimes I even felt like stepping into a different version of ‘China’ in a parallel universe tbh.”

Just want to add this one more similarity between us. In Vietnam you can also find big mothers and aunties doing square-dancing and having fun together in public spaces.

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Làm gì với trụ sở dôi dư?

Hàng nghìn trụ sở dư sau sắp xếp hành chính đang bị bỏ hoang, xuống cấp. Đồng thời, việc xử lý trụ sở chưa triệt để, còn dễ dẫn đến sử dụng sai mục đích hoặc tư nhân hóa gây thất thoát, lãng phí tài sản công và đất đai. Nếu được quy hoạch và chuyển đổi công năng hợp lý, các trụ sở này có thể phục vụ nhà ở xã hội, y tế, giáo dục hoặc các dịch vụ công cộng, vừa tiết kiệm chi phí, vừa phát triển kinh tế, đô thị và xã hội.

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My friend said that Japan, Korea and Vietnam would claim to be the “real China” if China suddenly disappeared and Vietnam was likely to be the victor. But how could that be? Aren’t they very hostile to China? And why Vietnam?

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CaiLei · Lives in China (1975–present)1y

Vietnam does not have this qualification.

In terms of civilization type, Vietnam belongs to ‘Austroasiatic civilization’, China, South Korea, and Japan belong to ‘East Asian civilization‘.

The main ethnic group in Vietnam is the Kinh people, whose language is generally considered to belong to the Austroasiatic language family, so the Kinh people are generally considered to be an Austroasiatic ethnic group;

  • Bloodline: 40% of Koreans have Chinese bloodline, and 20% of Japanese have Chinese bloodline; Vietnam only has 3 million Chinese after Lê Duẩn’s anti-Chinese movement, and only 1% of the people have Chinese bloodline;
  • Culture: South Korea almost copied Chinese culture + derived it; Japan has a small number of local cultures + the vast majority copied Chinese culture + derived it; Vietnam has local culture + Khmer culture + French culture + copied Chinese culture + derived it
Tiếp tục đọc “My friend said that Japan, Korea and Vietnam would claim to be the “real China” if China suddenly disappeared and Vietnam was likely to be the victor. But how could that be? Aren’t they very hostile to China? And why Vietnam?”

Vietnam is also a one-party communist country like China, but why is the US friendly to Vietnam but hostile to China?

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Jesuan Wu · Lives in Beijing, China (2023–present)Updated 1y

Because it never was about anti-Communism.

Gosh some people just can’t get out of their fear of the Soviet Union. It’s been 34 years already.

The US goes against countries that pose challenge to its strategic interests. And the top strategic interest of the US is world dominance. That’s why it went against the Soviet Union, and it went against Japan, and it went against the European Union, any country or bloc that grows strong enough to pose a challenge to the US dominance.

It’s China’s turn since China refused the G2 proposal in the 2010s.

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What is it like to be a Chinese Vietnamese living in Vietnam?

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Hoang Chau · Studied Information Technology at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology6y

I’m Chinese Vietnamese but not a Hoa (Chinese from southern China).

My parents came to HCMC , Vietnam from northern China (Henan , Chengdu) in 1986. And I was born in 1991. I can speak both Vietnamese and Mandarin Chinese.

I can say I’ve never been experienced racism or discrimination for 28 years of my life.

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