This week's focus is on events that lead to what Vietnam is today. The readings include the consequences of TPP, Agent Orange, and economic struggle of Vietnam. The Agent Orange that has been mentioned in Majorie Cohn's "Agent Orange: Terrible Legacy of the Vietnam War" lead to the conclusion that the U.S. war in Vietnam was an "illegal war of aggression" as the consequences of Agent Orange lead to children being born with abnormalities and some even early deaths. However even with this, the President of Vietnam supports U.S. because he said that we support them. This shows that Vietnam believes they have the support of the U.S.
In "Why Doesn't Vietnam Grow Faster?: State Fragmentation and the Limits of Vent for Surplus Growth" by Jonathan Pincus focused on the economic growth of Vietnam because of their transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy. After the Agent Orange, Vietnam needed to rebrand themselves. Vietnam was rising in economy, allowing them to rebrand themselves from the war, by their industries in agriculture and especially in their rice and coffee. Vietnam has also been trading with China some exports of transistors, semiconductors, and circuits that have actually been used for a huge company, Intel. The manufacturing of these products will give the country many more jobs.
Question: It hasn't been explicetly mentioned, but in the end of Cohn's article it mentioned the Vietnamese president wanting support from America. Is this because of America's power in the economic industries?
Works Cited:
Cohn, Marjorie. "Agent Orange: Terrible Legacy of the Vietnam War." Huffington Post 1 May 2015. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marjorie-cohn/agent-orange-terrible-legacy_b_7189938.html>.
Pincus, Jonathan. "WHy Doesn't Vietnam Grow Faster: State Fragmentation and the Limits of Vent for Surplus Growth."Journal of Southeast Asian Economics 32.1 (2015): 26-51. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ase/summary/v032/32.1.pincus.html>.
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