Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Vietnam Rising

The creativity and effort the Vietnamese devoted to defeating the United States' invasion of their country is now directed at producing goods to peacefully trade with the United States.  It is working well.
The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) expects Vietnam’s export to the US to hit around US$29.4 billion by the end of 2014--making Vietnam the top Southeast Asian supplier to its former foe for the first time in its history.
AmCham predicts bilateral trade will continue to surge to $57 billion in 2020, leaving other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states far behind, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported.
Vietnam exported around $800 million to the US in 2000, which means the country will have increased trade nearly 36-fold in 14 years.
I was in Saigon in April of 2010 and it very much reminded me of Hong Kong in April 1978.

This makes me reflect on how after the United States' unwarranted invasions of the middle east countries are defeated, how we will finally begin to trade peacefully with those countries.

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