Because they think that it's China that impose communism to them and by getting rid of communism, they will be the next Japan and South Korea. They always thought that they are more cultured and better than Japan and South Korea. They are trying to impose a myth on Vietnamese youth that in the past Vietnam was on way richer than Japan and Korea despite based on data, not really the case.
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The Commies of Vietnam are doing this to their own people? Lol what planet are those folks from anyways planet Jai Hind?
Ho Chi Minh was a commie that founded the new Vietnam and last time I checked those Vietnamese Commies were more enamored with the Soviet Russia than Commie China which is why the war with Vietnam and China back in 1979 had to happen.
But man, China can't seem to catch a break with any countries regardless of ethnicity and political orientation. The Commies in Vietnam seems to want to align itself with the country that bombed them back to stone age which is America; is more than friendly with countries that committed untold atrocities against their own people like the South Koreans, and the Imperial Japanese is more than friendly with Taiwan. Yet somehow am being told that the problems countries like Vietnam face would magically all go away if those dastardly CCP goes and melt away?
How many of US' so called allies would actually attack China if it came down to it though? Even Korea and Japan are questionable at best. I strongly doubt EU will send ships halfway around the world to invade China.
The skies go up high, and the emperor is far away. That is more true than ever for the American empire.
Even just intra-EU cooperation is not a given. It's one thing to muster all the warlords to verbally agree to an agenda at the emperor's table. It's another to ensure said fiefdoms actually act in an efficient and cooperative way.
In contrast, China is a single state, with access to comparable resources, albeit not manpower, as the whole West. It is much easier for China to coordinate it's own actions than it is for US + all it's claimed subjects.
The above hypothesis was proved in the Ukraine war, when the power of US' bloc, which is supposed to have 1.5x as much economic/hard power as China, failed to make significant dents into Russia, an ally that is only on the level of Germany or UK. From now on, China does in fact know for certain that as long as they play on the fact that US is neither an united or well run imperium, they can keep poking holes in them.
Beating the US is enough. Destroying the emperor's own forces will make all his questionably loyal warlords piss themselves. As long as China doesn't back the whole US aligned movement into a corner where there's no choice for them all but to fight. Which if you have noticed, is why China is channeling US to come to China instead of hitting EU or threatening Mexico or whatever.
I think China would only activate the treaty if SK and Japan was part of the invasion. It's not like NK can do too much against US in the ocean, if US keeps the war limited.
I believe you can automatically discount South Korea's economic/industrial power from any potential invasion of China scenario, because if they invade, they're so close to the defenders' artillery and ground forces that they will become a country sized Bakhmut, they would not be productive in anything but refugees.
Software is highly important. However it is hard to revoke at will unlike physical hardware. If no EUV machine sold to you there is no alternative. If no design program sold to you then you just never update and go with old software. It is also hard to make software embargo without affect regular sale. Lastly the crucial industrial software (that is worth embargoing) we are talking about are only a tiny % of the overall software market.
Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam all have the same mentality that a resurgence of China means that they would be again to be dominated by China. For millennium, China was the sole great power in East Asia. Many of kings of South Korea and Vietnam would need to seek China's recognition for legitimacy.
Therefore, from their prospective, a powerful China is not in their interests. Even though the US has been a bigger threat to Vietnam and become an overlord to South Korea and Japan, they still see the US as lesser of the threat to their interests than China. In addition, all of them wish China would break apart like it did before so that Japan, South Korea and Vietnam could again compete for dominated power in East Asia. If the US could defeat China, then even if they don't get the big piece of pie, they would still get some piece of the pie.
Therefore, from their prospective, a powerful China is not in their interests. Even though the US has been a bigger threat to Vietnam and become an overlord to South Korea and Japan, they still see the US as lesser of the threat to their interests than China. In addition, all of them wish China would break apart like it did before so that Japan, South Korea and Vietnam could again compete for dominated power in East Asia. If the US could defeat China, then even if they don't get the big piece of pie, they would still get some piece of the pie.
Thats fucking hilarious because I am the one telling you you should not be comparing NATO to Chinese economic partners in first place. See below: I am not the one doing the comparison, you are.
Unless you think Iran will intervene in Taiwan for China lol. They might start up trouble in Middle East, but thats what they always do with or without China.
^ My original reply that is still relevant.
Saudi Arabia is listed as economic partner because they are the biggest seller of oil to China, and has shown to resist US demand for increased production. They coordinated with Russia to reduce production instead. That is why they are economically China/Russia aligned.
Speaking of being proven wrong, here is stuff about Russian military aid to Kazakhstan.
"They work together within the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), and through more than 60 bilateral agreements that regulate defense and military-technical cooperation."
"Joint military cooperation fully involves almost all aspects of their security policy and other related activities, from conducting joint military exercises, especially within the framework of the CSTO (three were conducted in 2010, and as many are scheduled for 2011), the production of weapons and military technology, the training of military personnel (over 15,000 Kazakhstani soldiers were trained at Russian military facilities between 1992 and 2005), to the sharing of military facilities and installations."
Kazakstan is in formal military alliance with Russia. There will be some squabbles here and there, tough luck. Hungary blocks aid initiative to Ukraine in EU. North Korea purged pro-Chinese faction. Turkey blocked Sweden into NATO. US spies on German chancellor cell-phone. Russia harassed Chinese BRI until recently. That is just normal stuff. But back on topic to economics, Kazakhstan is a US puppet right? Let's see what US government is saying:
Totally what NATO ally do. 睁眼说瞎话
All the Anglo nations!
I agree. This is the part I do not understand. We are already seeing what western alliance maximum economic pressure is like on Russia. It makes no sense to speculate about it.
Current Russia is under that exact same challenge proposed by Eventine. The power is not to be underestimated, but ultimately it failed to cause big problem after initial year. Now Russia is doing fine recovering. I believe China will be more resilient than Russia given much much bigger economic power, and the fact there is no more element of surprise seeing Russian example.
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I am not really concerned about finding domestic alternatives to existing software being used in China or any attempts at embargoing software that are doomed to fail. I am talking more about the potential for China to move beyond the export of manufactured goods and into the export of software services as well. Exporting software as a service in fields such as cloud computing, AI/ML services, and software platforms targeted at consumers to overseas markets. Increasing revenues from overseas markets to further invest in innovation and R&D and creating more high paying jobs domestically. China has the resources and potential to compete in the lucrative global software/IT services market, especially in new and emerging fields.