In the 60s of last century, the United States brazenly launched the Vietnam War in order to prevent North Vietnam from unifying the whole of Vietnam.
In this war, the US military dropped 8 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, more than World War I and World War II combined.
After bombing Vietnam to pieces, the US military left the scene angrily.
To this day, there are still a large number of bombs in some rural areas of Vietnam.
The slightest mistake in these bombs can be detonated, posing a serious safety risk to the Vietnamese.
However, although the US military once caused so much damage to Vietnam, Vietnam now abandons hatred and is getting closer and closer to the United States.
Why is that? Don't the Vietnamese have much revenge?
Vietnam's ambitions
In fact, the reason why Vietnam is getting closer and closer to the United States regardless of the past is not because Vietnamese people like to forget history.
On the contrary, every Vietnamese will remember the history of their country.
In the minds of every Vietnamese, Vietnam has always been the hegemon of the Indochina Peninsula.
Since the Han Dynasty on the mainland, Vietnam has dominated Southeast Asia as a cross-toed country.
At that time, both Java and Siam were able to take the lead.
But whenever the people who provoke the toes are not happy, the whole army of the toes will attack and smash the cities of these countries.
Of course, any regional power will have a day of weakness, and Vietnam is no exception.
Moreover, Vietnam's weakening time was the same as that of China, around the 19th century.
At that time, it was in the late Qing period of the mainland, the West ushered in the industrial revolution, scientific and technological productivity exploded, and the West surpassed the East in one fell swoop.
At this time, many Western colonists came to Southeast Asia to colonize, and Vietnam was enslaved at this time.
This state of slavery lasted until the end of World War II, when the French troops withdrew from Vietnam and the Vietnamese people won independence.
Who would have thought that not long after the independence of the Vietnamese, the Americans came running again.
The U.S. military beat the North Vietnamese army to the head on the pretext of assisting the South Vietnamese army.
If China had not provided timely support to the North Vietnamese army, Vietnam would now be a capitalist country.
Fortunately, the North Vietnamese army itself was more contentious, coupled with the help of China, so it unified the whole of Vietnam in one go.
However, since the North Vietnamese regime unified Vietnam, the Vietnamese began to float.
Vietnam believes that it has defeated the US imperialist power, so Vietnam is the third largest military power in the world.
With this courage, Vietnam began to fight in the Indochina Peninsula.
First they attacked Cambodia, then they wanted to fight Laos, and in the end, even Thailand did not let go.
From the Chinese side, Vietnam is about to turn the sky upside down.
If Vietnam's military development is not curbed, perhaps Vietnam will unify the whole of Southeast Asia.
If that happens, Vietnam may be like Japan in 1931, and after starting the war machine, it will never stop.
Therefore, in order to put an end to Vietnam's militaristic ideology and let Vietnam pause, the mainland Foreign Ministry severely condemned Vietnam's hegemonic behavior.
The Vietnamese are attacking cities and plundering the land, and suddenly being beaten by China like this, the heart is naturally very unhappy.
It happened that at this time, the Soviets came to the door.
Grievances between China and Vietnam
Because the Soviet Union was in conflict with China at that time, the Soviet Union wanted Vietnam and China to fight, which could weaken China's strength and delay China's industrialization process.
So the Soviets went to Vietnam and said, "Go challenge China, I'll support you."
Therefore, Vietnam, under the demagogy of the Soviet Union, slowly issued a provocation to China.
In the 70s of the last century, Vietnam sent troops to repeatedly harass the mainland border areas.
Some Vietnamese troops have even gone to China to carry out raiding and looting of homes, which is very rampant.
In order to teach Vietnam a lesson, the Central Military Commission sent Xu Shiyou, Xu Qianqian and other famous generals to sit in the southern theater and command the troops to start a counterattack war against Vietnam.
In just one month, it took more than 20 cities in Vietnam.
If it weren't for Duke Deng pressing the pause button of the war in time for the sake of the industrialization of the mainland, the capital of Vietnam would have been captured long ago.
Of course, it was precisely because of this war that Vietnam and China completely forged a bond.
In 1988, Vietnam clashed with the mainland over the border, leading to another naval war.
In this war, our army finished the abuse of the Vietnamese army.
According to the battle damage ratio data at that time, of the four warships in Vietnam, two were sunk, one was severely damaged, and one ran back home in a hurry.
During the entire naval battle, our army killed more than 400 Vietnamese soldiers, while only one of our troops was wounded, and all ships were also intact.
After seeing the super combat effectiveness of our army, the Vietnamese side actually directly changed its tone and said: "The Chinese army bullied Vietnam, and China deliberately attacked the Vietnamese army in order to show its hegemonic position."
After seeing Vietnam's statement, the United States and the Soviet Union also strongly supported Vietnam, saying that China did have regional hegemonism and posed a military threat to other countries.
Despite repeated statements from the mainland that our military is fighting to defend sovereignty, other countries simply do not listen.
They even said that Vietnam is so poor, it can't be that Vietnam bullied China, right?
In this regard, the mainland had no choice but to give up and let these jumping beam clowns talk nonsense internationally.
After all, at that time, the focus of the mainland's development was to build the economy, not to fight with those countries.
If it has been immersed in such international disputes, will the mainland still develop?
As for Vietnam, after tasting the sweetness of gangsterism, it began to brazenly woo allies internationally.
He often smears China, saying that China's rise is not good for the people of the whole world, and that China is a complete hegemonic country.
After seeing Vietnam's wonderful performance, the United States put aside its previous right and wrong and stood with Vietnam again.
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The fly camp dog between the United States and Vietnam
Thus, in 1995, the United States and Vietnam established diplomatic relations again.
Obviously, the purpose of this move by the United States is to use Vietnam as a starting point to stifle China's development.
It just so happens that Vietnam also needs a strong third party to help itself, so that it can continue to fight in the ring with China.
As the two countries come and go, the relationship between the United States and Vietnam has become closer and closer.
By 2006, the United States had even granted Vietnam the status of "permanent normal trade relations."
Of course, in the face of the attention of the United States, Vietnam has also returned the favor.
Since 2000, Vietnam has regarded the United States as the world's largest customer.
Only what goods are produced, and they are sold to the United States as soon as possible.
In the 10 years from 2000 to 2010, trade between the United States and Vietnam increased 74-fold.
In 2019, the United States invested $11 billion in Vietnam to help Vietnam build factories and industrialize.
If this form continues, sooner or later Vietnam will also be groomed by the United States to become a junior brother like Japan and South Korea.
So in this situation, is it strange that the Vietnamese government is so close to the United States?
This also confirms the common saying in the world: "There are no eternal friends, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests."
Although during the Vietnam War, the US military blew Vietnam into a sieve for more than a decade.
But today, Vietnam can only pinch its nose and stand with the United States for its own interests to contain China.
Militarily, Vietnam's current naval strength is certainly not enough to confront the Chinese Navy, and even the South China Sea Fleet can beat the Vietnamese army.
Therefore, Vietnam can only rely on the power of the US Navy and adopt a fox and fake tiger strategy to balance military relations in Southeast Asian waters.
Economically, the mainland and Vietnam already compete.
Especially in previous years, China and Vietnam were experts in low-end manufacturing, and the two countries often fought head-to-head in terms of grabbing orders.
Now a little better, the mainland has begun to move into the high-end manufacturing industry, so that most of the low-end industrial chain now flows to Vietnam.
Even so, Vietnam believes that the mainland has snatched their orders.
Therefore, in order to stifle China's development, Vietnam often signs various commercial mutual assistance agreements with the United States, so as to ensure that it has enough strength to confront China.
In short, Vietnam and the United States are a cooperative and symbiotic relationship, and China is the target of the joint attack of the United States and Vietnam.
As long as China is stronger, the relationship between the United States and Vietnam will be strengthened.
Unless China ceases to exist, this plastic brotherhood between Vietnam and the United States will fall apart.
Where should Vietnam go
Ironically, however, while Vietnam is fighting against China everywhere, Vietnam inevitably learns from China everywhere.
From the guerrilla warfare during the Vietnam War, but the OEM manufacturing in the 90s of the last century, and now the Vietnamese version of reform and opening up, without exception, they are all learning from China.
Because the Vietnamese understand that China and Vietnam come out of the same hellish difficulty. Only by crossing the river by touching China can Vietnam have a way out.
Otherwise, if you arbitrarily follow the Western countries like this, sooner or later something will happen.
It has to be said that in terms of controlling the country's economic development, the Vietnamese top level is still very brainy.
It's just that while learning from the master, Vietnam is also suppressing the master, trying to trap the bullying under the low-level development line.
This kind of deception and ancestor destruction is really infuriating.
Of course, no matter which country Vietnam unites to contain China, they will not be able to stop China's progress.
After all, since modern times, Chinese have crawled out of the corpse mountain and the sea of blood, and have experienced countless winds and waves.
Vietnam's little trick alone is simply not enough to shake China's great power status.
The only thing Vietnam can do now is to develop its own economy and follow China's example, so that it can embark on its own broad road.
Otherwise, Vietnam will most likely become like other countries in Southeast Asia, grabbing a little breadcrumb from Western countries all day long.
While grabbing breadcrumbs, they also neglected their own industrialization construction, and finally could only undertake the sewer industry of some developed countries, struggling endlessly in poverty and hardship.
Or develop the skills of pornography, gambling and drugs to the extreme, become a red light district in Southeast Asia, and never return on the road of telecom fraud and pyramid schemes.
In any case, the path of the Vietnamese has to be decided by themselves.
The only influence China can have on Vietnam is to provide Vietnam with a development model.
As for what should the Vietnamese people do next? is to continue to hold the thigh of the US imperialism and sing the opposite tune with China; Or humbly accept China's advice and bury one's head in hard work?
It depends on how the Vietnamese top management decides.
If Vietnam remains obsessed, it will most likely become a regional poor country like Myanmar and Cambodia.
Only by truly realizing our shortcomings and shortcomings and developing industrialization in a down-to-earth manner can we slowly keep pace with China and let all Vietnamese enjoy a happy and healthy life.
After all, like this blue road, Chinese has already traveled for Vietnam. As for whether Vietnam is willing to endure hardship, it depends on their own choices.
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In general, Vietnam is pro-American mainly because of the following two reasons.
On the one hand, the United States is indeed Vietnam's largest commodity market, and many things produced in Vietnamese factories will rot in factories if they are not sold to the United States.
On the other hand, Vietnam's pro-American purpose is mainly to contain China.
After all, in the face of a heavyweight power like China, Vietnam's statement that it is not afraid is certainly false.
Neither economically nor militarily, Vietnam cannot match the mainland, but Vietnam has always regarded the mainland as a competitor.
Therefore, under the influence of this psychology, Vietnam can only win over the United States and other third-party forces to balance Sino-Vietnamese relations.
Otherwise, Vietnam will only be rubbed on the ground by China.