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Although Vietnam keeps its head down and is welcoming and nice to US, they're still a single party system named the Communist Party dabbling in marxist and modern state capital systems. They still predictably squash dissent and put them in gulags/reducation camps, and the lack of this news only points to them being too small and insignificant for us to care.

Do we really care if two Communist Parties attack each other?

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Communist, democratic, (il)liberal -- the rhetoric all doesn't matter. Containment of China and an international balance of power is the issue, not which flavor of governance domestically.

Although I’m very skeptical of their intentions, I don't share that priority

>Although Vietnam keeps its head down and is welcoming and nice to US, they're still a single party system named the Communist Party dabbling in marxist and modern state capital systems.

China and Vietnam have fought a war with each other more recently than either has fought the US.

In our lifetime we will again see the US Navy based at Cam Ranh Bay, and the USAF based at Tan Son Nhut. (Same with Subic and Clark in the Philippines.)

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