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I understand why they would consider china their primary external security threat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_conflicts,_1979%E2%80%931991 h
by anfilt 7y ago
I understand why they would consider china their primary external security threat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_conflicts,_1979%E2%80%931991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_conflicts,_197...
Also let's not forget how pushy china has been in West Philippine Sea ("South China sea") east of Vietnam.
- abrowne 7y agoIt's longer than that, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_domination_of_Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_domination_of_Vietnam The Chinese domination of Vietnam began in 111 BC, and is usually considered to have ended in 938 AD. A fourth, relatively brief, 20-year punitive invasion by the Ming dynasty, 400 years later, is usually excluded by historians in discussion of the main, almost continuous, period of Chinese colonization from 111 BC to 938 AD, as is the brief occupation of northern Vietnam by Chinese forces at the end of the Second World War.
- anfilt 7y agoAlso again look how insane china's claims are east of Vietnam. https://i.postimg.cc/3NLwVPGX/china-s-insane-claims.png https://i.postimg.cc/3NLwVPGX/china-s-insane-claims.png
- equalunique 7y agoBasically China is claiming the water that lies between two totally independent countries.
- rqs 7y agoYou mean, everybody who fought with Vietnam will be an external security threat? Then that's a lots of people on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Vietnam#Modern_Vietnam_(1945%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Vietnam... Not I supporting Huawei (I think they better off died), but I don't think that War argument is the full picture.
- anfilt 7y agoNo I would generally would consider countries with recent wars and tensions which is why I brought both territorial disputes and the previous war.
- rqs 7y agoI mean, even disputes and war could only explain part of the story (U.S. is also in war with Vietnam, so as Japan and many others). I suspect their(Vietnam government's) altitude towards the Internet maybe also played a role in there. As far as I know, Vietnam's Internet giants is far smaller compare those in China and U.S. So even if Vietnam going to full-boom in 5G (That currently require equipments from Huawei to keep up to the speed), that will still be more beneficial to international companies than domestic ones. Maybe that's another reason why they're willing to claim down and making decision with such leverage.
- anfilt 7y agoThe article said "external security threat" that's getting more into economic threats. Although that could be factor as well.