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To: cba123

I’d love to be a fly on a wall for this as I’m a technical manager for a couple offices of software developers in TP Da Nang and TP HCM for a European IT outsourcing group. I see that right now with so many companies used to doing 100% remote for IT workers and American salaries/costs so much higher that the push to do more outsourcing here for America is going to get strong.

“Highlighting Vietnam’s growing importance as a “friendshoring” destination for U.S. technology companies, on Monday, executives from Google, Intel, Amkor, Marvell, GlobalFoundries and Boeing are expected to meet Vietnamese tech executives and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Hanoi.”

If you want to stay in Viet Nam long-term I don’t see a good way to do it unless you marry a Vietnamese person and then you can get a TRC every 3 years. My son, just 1 year old, has it easiest as he’s got both USA and Vietnam passports.

BTW, anyone who is wondering how the Vietnamese feel about the Vietnam War -— it’s about the same way that Americans feel about the War of 1812. Yes it was awful that the British burned Washington DC in 1814. But most Americans have moved on to other issues and all of the recent threads on this forum that deal with other topics besides the 1814 burning of Washington DC will help remind you of this. Same with the Vietnamese.


10 posted on 09/09/2023 8:27:20 PM PDT by Degaston
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To: Degaston

Oh I am married here, just advocating for other Americans. 😎


11 posted on 09/09/2023 8:47:26 PM PDT by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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To: Degaston
BTW, anyone who is wondering how the Vietnamese feel about the Vietnam War - it's about the same way that Americans feel about the War of 1812.

Yes

In one of the many war cemeteries in Lang Son, a city in northern Vietnam, Pham Thi Ky and her family light incense and offer prayers for her brother-in-law, who died 36 years ago in Vietnam's brief but bloody border war with China. That 1979 war left more than 50,000 dead. There are other graves here, too. They fought and died against the French occupiers, then the Americans. But relative to China, those were brief battles.

No country weighs on Vietnam like China, and it has been that way for centuries. Has the conflict with China ever really ended, I ask Pham Thi Ky as she lights another candle. “No,” she says. Her daughter agrees. Her sister is even more emphatic. “It will never end. With the Chinese, how can it ever end?”

Duong Trung Quoc, a member of Vietnam's National Assembly and editor of the magazine Past & Present, says, “I think China is not only Vietnam's problem, but the world's problem right now.” He says he's a survivor of a massacre next to My Lai, one that claimed 97 lives, including his mother. He no longer considers the Americans enemies, but rather as friends. Allies, even, against Vietnam's longtime enemy. He believes the Chinese have taken something that belongs to Vietnam.

“The Spratly and Paracels (islands) are still partly occupied,” he says. “Of course at some point we have to put our differences aside, but we have to get those islands back first. Because it belongs to our ancestors.” It doesn't take him long to acknowledge that probably won't happen. “They want to spread their control. They will never give back what they took,” he adds. “Vietnam wants to take it back, but the Chinese are strong. So our struggle will last a long time. How long? I can't tell.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/01/402572349/ask-the-vietnamese-about-war-and-they-think-china-not-the-u-s

18 posted on 09/10/2023 11:39:42 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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