Vietnam: yesterday, today and tomorrow.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Suter, Keith | Copyright information

IN March 2005 I returned to Vietnam for the first time since I was there doing research for a doctorate during the war in South Vietnam in 1974. The purpose of this article is to recall the country's history, to look at the state of Vietnam today, and to provide two contrasting speculations on how it could progress into the future.

Yesterday

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