Bất chấp sức ép từ thuế nhập khẩu của Mỹ, Trung Quốc vẫn thặng dư 1.000 tỷ USD chỉ trong 11 tháng – kỷ lục chưa quốc gia nào đạt được.
Một năm trước, ông Donald Trump tái đắc cử Tổng thống Mỹ. Lo ngại cuộc chiến thương mại mới diễn ra, các hãng sản xuất Trung Quốc gấp rút đẩy mạnh xuất khẩu. Trong chiến dịch tranh cử, ông Trump tuyên bố sẽ áp thêm thuế nhập khẩu lên hàng hóa Trung Quốc, nhằm thu hẹp thâm hụt thương mại ngày càng lớn của Mỹ.
Một năm sau, Tổng thống Mỹ thực hiện đúng cam kết. Nhưng Trung Quốc cũng đã chuyển hướng chiến lược, và thậm chí còn xuất khẩu nhiều hơn.
Vietnam has a lower GDP (PPP) per capita than Greece because it has a big population, about 10 times of Greece. In fact, Vietnam GDP is nearly double Greece in nominal value and more than triple in PPP.
Of Vietnam GDP, the 2 largest metropolitans of Hanoi (and 3 surrounding provinces) and Saigon (and 3 surrounding provinces) contribute upto 60% approximately USD 0.7T (PPP), about double size of Greece as a whole. That’s being said Greece is just on par with 2 biggest cities in Vietnam. Moreover, Greece is fully grown as it is developed, but Vietnam is still growing, this moment is not the limit of Vietnam. You can see in the very near future, each of the 2 cities of Vietnam will surpass Greece. Vietnam apparantly has better human and financial resources than at least a Greece after debt crisis.
In a recent interview with Lex Fridman, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang talked about the future of AI, and one standout point was China. He said China will continue to be a serious AI innovator, in large part because much of its AI development is open-source and experimental.
(Chinhphu.vn) – Chiều 7/4, tiếp tục Kỳ họp thứ Nhất, với 474/474 đại biểu tham gia biểu quyết tán thành, Quốc hội đã thông qua Nghị quyết bầu ông Nguyễn Huy Tiến tiếp tục giữ chức Viện trưởng Viện Kiểm sát nhân dân tối cao nhiệm kỳ 2026 – 2031.
07/04/2026 17:04
Viện trưởng Viện Kiểm sát nhân dân tối cao Nguyễn Huy Tiến
Viện trưởng Viện Kiểm sát nhân dân tối cao Nguyễn Huy Tiến sinh năm 1968, quê quán tỉnh Hưng Yên. Ông có trình độ Tiến sĩ Luật, Thạc sĩ Luật, Đại học chuyên ngành Luật, Cao đẳng kiểm sát; Cao cấp lý luận chính trị.
Thành viên Chính phủ nhiệm kỳ 2026-2031 vừa được Quốc hội kiện toàn gồm Thủ tướng Chính phủ, 6 Phó Thủ tướng và 16 Bộ trưởng, trưởng ngành.
Lãnh đạo Chính phủ nhiệm kỳ 2026-2031 gồm Thủ tướng Chính phủ Lê Minh Hưng; 6 Phó Thủ tướng Chính phủ. Ảnh: Phạm Đông
Tại Kỳ họp thứ Nhất, Quốc hội khóa XVI đã bầu Thủ tướng Chính phủ nhiệm kỳ 2026-2031; phê chuẩn việc bổ nhiệm Phó Thủ tướng Chính phủ, Bộ trưởng và thành viên khác của Chính phủ.
Quốc hội đã bầu ông Lê Minh Hưng – Ủy viên Bộ Chính trị, Bí thư Trung ương Đảng, Trưởng Ban Tổ chức Trung ương – giữ chức Thủ tướng Chính phủ; phê chuẩn bổ nhiệm 6 Phó Thủ tướng Chính phủ và 16 thành viên khác của Chính phủ.
VNE – Sau khi kiện toàn, lãnh đạo chủ chốt của Đảng, Nhà nước nhiệm kỳ 2026-2031 gồm 4 người: Tổng Bí thư, Chủ tịch nước Tô Lâm; Thủ tướng Lê Minh Hưng; Chủ tịch Quốc hội Trần Thanh Mẫn; Thường trực Ban Bí thư Trần Cẩm Tú.
I was born after the war. So as a child, I didn’t hate any country. Because I have no feeling of war even though I know how bad it is.
I watched a lot of animated movies on TV (mostly foreign films, because at that time, Vietnam did not produce many films). I figured out the unique characteristics of each country and now I call those things “culture”.
After classes at school, I became more and more aware of the unique cultural characteristics of Vietnam. When I compare the similarities and differences of cultures, I am even more proud of my culture. Probably because all cultures are equally unique and wonderful.
I wish I could do something in the future to plant a Vietnamese flag on the international market. I want to share more about my people’s culture to the world.
When I went to Quora, I met people like Huijian Wu, Goodi Shang, Cheong Tee,… They propagate stupid things like “Vietnam is an inferior nation”, “Vietnamese people are actually Han Chinese, Vietnamese leaders changed their writing so that the Vietnamese could no longer see their Han ancestors,”… They make up stories about Vietnamese history!!!
That is the cause.
The US or French government also sometimes opposes the Vietnamese government. But the Americans, the French and the Japanese for the most part don’t care much, they behave more politely. And some Chinese people keep showing their level of ignorance which makes me very uncomfortable.
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;
Most people who are alive in Viet Nam today only know of one government under the leadership of one party: the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Literally, everything in their lives has something to do with the Party. Take it away and the whole thing may not even be able to stand. The Party has become a function of the State: its spirit and it has been performing admirably, all things considered.
At first, China was very interested in Vietnam’s ‘North-South High-Speed Rail’ project, but many things happened along the way, causing Chinese companies to have concerns and be unwilling to invest further.
In 2011, China Railway Sixth Group undertook the Hanoi Jileng – Ha Dong Light Rail Project. It was originally planned to be completed in 3-4 years, but upon the completion of the project, the Vietnamese side demanded an additional 50 million USD from the Chinese side as a ‘service testing fee.’ When the Chinese side refused, the Vietnamese side withheld the final payment. In order to avoid settling the final payment, the Vietnamese side hired the French consulting company ACT to assess the entire plant. The results showed that the project met quality standards. Ultimately, after the construction period was extended to 10 years, the project was only completed for acceptance and final payment settlement in 2021, and the disputed 50 million USD was never paid.
Luca Yang ·Master in Economics, Fudan University (复旦大学) (Graduated 2019)8y
I visited Vietnam last year. Here’s my feeling:
Yes. Put it in another way, both China and Vietnam look like what a transitional economy on the track of fast growth is supposed to be, a hybrid of new and old powered by heated business activities.
In particular, as a tourist, I feel that the way Vietnamese businessman cooperated with the travel agency tried to solicit goods was very familiar to me.
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Because many Filipinos love to dig out photos of Vietnam like this:
They then proceed to compare it with photos of their cities like this:
Then conclude that their country looks richer and more developed. But the reality is much more complicated.
You see, each tiny white blob you see in the Vietnam photo is a private property. Something that looks like this on land:
They are called tube houses, a characteristic feature of Vietnamese cities. Tube houses came about due to people’s desire to make use of their small land. The more money you have, the more you build up.
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