Despite the presence of the s-word in its formal name, Vietnam is typically classified as a communist state
The country's official name"is a vestige term," said Joshua Kurlantzick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations."People in Vietnam are focused on getting rich, making money."
After all, on the other side of the world right now, Trump is using diplomatic and economic pressure to try to push out of power Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who preaches socialist ideals but whose country's economy is in ruins. “We are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” Trump said, signaling what Republicans expect to be a potent 2020 campaign attack line. “America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free.”ran for president in 2016, describes himself as a “democratic socialist” who wants to reduce economic inequality in the United States.
Maduro came to lead Venezuela after the 2013 death of Hugo Chavez, a longtime socialist firebrand and political mentor. But some Maduro critics say his government's problem isn't so much socialism as it is corruption, authoritarian instincts and the influence of narco-traffickers.
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