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Ignoring everything else wrong with this comment, you should know Foxconn is a Taiwanese company.

The largest Foxconn factory is in China, so I can see nothing wrong with this comment at all.

I guess that Apple and the the rest of the pack had no say in that. Maybe they will find out about Foxconn's plans from this HN post.

Ignoring everything ignorant with your comment you should know that Foxconn uses that factory to manufacture computer devices for U.S corporations just like they've been doing in China for decades.

Well, they have moved to a mixed-economy and are still moving.

There was a documentary several years back that had a VC General who was being interviewed. He was walking down a street talking about his grandchildren's interests and walking by all those American company's logos. He was not pleased.

Their politics is still authoritarian/totalitarian regardless the economy. So really looks like wannabe China #2 to me.

It's important to note that Vietnam, much like China, only promises the mixed economy temporarily, and officially at least claim that they will move away from it once the country is sufficiently developped.

"officially at least claim that they will move away from it once the country is sufficiently developped"

This is very bold claim, can you give source? I'm Vietnamese and never hear about that before.

They claim the current semi-planned economy is a transition to true socialism. It's been in transition for over thirty years, and sounds more like ideological justification than a real plan to change.

For details see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist-oriented_market_econ...

It certainly could be ideological justification, however as early as the 1880s communists and socialist started advocating for 50-100 years of state capitalism in less developed countries before socialism would be attempted.

Lenin for example had this position in the USSR once he realized central planning wasn't going to work out well enough, but Stalin took the USSR in another direction when Lenin died.

That's just plain stupid. Extreme socialism doesn't solve any problems that capitalism couldn't solve with the right policies. It is entirely possible to build a capitalist society that treats worker fairly. You only need leadership that is caring about the population instead of personal gain. Socialism isn't immune against that, in fact it often goes hand in hand with authoritarianism which means economic outcomes will be worse in most cases.

Yes, if capitalism didn't exploit the working class I doubt socialists would find it so intolerable.

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