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Originally Posted by Strider
Yes, their growth has been even more impressive than China's, in some ways.
No, it can be correlated to marketization in the 1980s. Whether or not the reforms or some version of them would have happened had with a permanent had the US not left is debateable. The only thing that can be said with any sort of certainty is that whatever resulted would likely not look the same as Vietnam as it presently exists.
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I agree with global market expansion being the primary reason for Vietnam's economic growth but disagree with your somewhat nebulous opinion on the issue of would that change have occured with ongoing US attempts at conquering Vietnam. Vietnam had already fought for 100-years and I don't feel it would ever have been conquered by the US without killing every last Vietnamese person. Like Iraq, capital investment would have avoided Vietnam without predictable civil order.