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“China is traditionally Vietnam’s enemy. [Vietnam] had been kicking [invaders] out for millennia. And we were just the latest.”

— Mark Bowden

“The growth of China over the last four decades had been tremendous, raising the country from a veritable third world status to the second…

— Michael C. Grumley

“The Communist Party has not done much to change China’s traditional notions of governance, and the result has been more sorrow for the Chinese…

— Gordon G. Chang

Vietnam's transformation - like that of so many nations - has been supported and even accelerated by an international, rules-based order dedicated to the…

— Antony Blinken

Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”

— Gordon G. Chang

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one…

— Ho Chi Minh

To be sure, China is nowhere as powerful as the U.S., but it has acquired the ability to impose its will on individual nations…

— Sanjaya Baru

I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a totalitarian state,…

— Liu Xiaobo

And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of…

— Michael W. Michalak

While I am skeptical about the long term viability of one-party dominant political systems, I have great admiration for Deng Xiaopeng and the reforms…

— Pritam Singh

From the United States, Vietnam is looking for two things. One of them is a very stable and continuing to expand economic relationship. Secondly,…

— Michael W. Michalak