Speaking of Vietnam, what do you think of? In recent years, this Southeast Asian country has received widespread attention because of its rapid economic development of , and some even call it the next China. However, the rise of modern China is a miracle that is almost irrepeatable. Especially in recent years, Vietnam has tended to develop towards a total westernization. Some experts said that the upper limit of this country's development in the future is Japan, and the lower limit is Ukraine. Is this really the case?
Vietnam
Although it is located in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is actually deeply influenced by Chinese culture, and China and Vietnam have also been bullied in modern times. At the end of the 19th century, the French forcibly occupied Vietnam and used it as their colony for half a century. Not to mention modern China, it has also been bullied by the great powers. However, the development of the two countries was completely different from the same level later.
After a hundred years of arduous struggle, the New China was finally established, and the people have been in charge of their own country since then. However, after , Vietnam, after , did not usher in its own independent development, and later it was divided into North and South Vietnam, and even Americans got involved. Until the death of Ho Chi Minh , known as the "father of the nation", the country began to embrace the Soviet Union in full, and even provoke China at the border. Everyone knows the story later. Vietnam was beaten to the point of being blue and swollen by our country, which was a shame. After the war, Vietnam also began to turn to economic development, and imitated our country's reform and opening up , and implemented the policy of reform and opening up. It should be said that Vietnam, both a country led by the Communist Party, learns from China to develop its economy. However, in the past few decades, its development path has become increasingly deviated, and even tends to be fully Westernized.
Next Japan?
In fact, there are two main reasons why the country has become Westernized. First of all, during the French colonial period, it was deeply influenced by Western politics and culture. Secondly, Japan, located in East Asia, ushered in the success of its success in the future after learning from the West in Meiji Restoration . In the eyes of many Vietnamese, China has a vast land and a large population, and its development potential is not comparable to that of itself. On the contrary, Japan has a population and territory that are comparable to its own, and there is something worth learning.
However, thinking this way is really ideal, because Japan and Vietnam are not the same as each other. First of all, Japan is an island country. Although its land area is small, it has a vast ocean territory. Secondly, it is precisely because Japan is an island country that it was not completely colonized before the Meiji Restoration, and even opened up its own modernization and became a powerful empire later.
During World War II, Japan lost a large amount of population and resources, but with the free support from the United States, its economy developed rapidly after the war, and even threatened the economic status of the United States for a time. Let’s look at Vietnam again. During the French colonial period, a large amount of resources were plundered. Since then, the local area has experienced World War II, Vietnam War , self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, etc. It can be said that although Vietnam has an independent status, it has no time to accumulate primitively. The most important point is that Vietnam cannot gain the unconditional trust of the United States like Japan. In this way, the possibility of becoming the next Japan is slim.
is more likely to be Ukraine
Not only that, Vietnam may even become the next Ukraine. As mentioned above, Vietnam was split into North and South Vietnam, and the south of the south implemented capitalism , while the north was communism. Even after unification, the contradiction between the north and the south still exists, especially in politics. The prime minister is basically the southerners, while the northerners serve as secretary. In this regard, Ukraine is the same. With Dnieper River as the boundary, the one on the right is basically pro-European, while the one on the left is more yearning for Russia.
Over the years, in order to cater to the West, Vietnam has made many reforms at the political level. For example, the so-called Western democracy such as the so-called multi-party system and the separation of powers, and some even proposed universal suffrage.It can be said that in order to make itself more "democratic", Vietnam has really made a sacrifice, which corresponds to the vigorous Western color revolution in recent years.
As we all know, the reason why Ukraine has such an end today is caused by the color revolution. Although the changes issued by Vietnam are not as fierce as the former, many so-called "democratization" proposals in its country also make the future of this country unpredictable. It is not impossible to recurrence between the north and the south, or even a civil war. By then, the only thing waiting for Vietnam is to end up falling apart.
