Vietnam is not that poor. Vietnam is MUCH richer than its direct neighbours, Laos and Cambodia. Thailand is richer though. The actual thing is not really poor

Vietnam is not that poor. Vietnam is MUCH richer than its direct neighbours, Laos and Cambodia. Thailand is richer though. The actual thing is not really poor population, but how easy is to build new factory there. Vietnam has the best thing for that - it is easy to build new stuff there, as the infrastructure exists; however, they absolutely ignore any environmental laws and just spew all waste into rivers and air. Look up Formosa Steel incident - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Vietnam_marine_life_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Vietnam_marine_life_disas... - huge disaster of a Taiwanese company, after which there were big protests. Communist government then arrested all protesters and put them to 20 years in prisons (for protesting against a foreign company!). Nobody protests about environmental waste now.