QUORA

Lucia Millar · 

Lives in AsiacUpdated 4y

Question: Why does Vietnam not want to become a neutral country like Switzerland? Why has Vietnam switched itself from pro-Russia, pro-China, anti-America to pro-America, anti-China? Why can’t Vietnam be consistent?

Answer: I think that your questions are interesting.

First of all, Why does Vietnam not want to become a neutral country like Switzerland?

I think that Vietnam has always wanted to become the Switzerland of Asia. However, the reality is different quite far from Vietnam’s wish.

Switzerland lies between these greatest Empires between France, Italy, Germany, and Austria (Former part of Austria-Hungary Empire) which this country could use one of them to re-balance with the others if it faces aggression from one. Together with its hard terrain, its strong fighting against invaders, having poor natural resources, most of the great powers in Europe agree about the neutral status for Switzerland. It means that its neutral status requires many factors but one of the most important things is that others agree with it. If not, Switzerland could have not become neutral.

So, we could sum up some factors to help Switzerland keeping its neutrality as follows;

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