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Vietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassalage 1975-2015
10.18.2015 :: AnalysisIntroduction: In 1975 the people of Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history defeating the US, the worlds biggest imperial power, after 20 years of struggle. Barely forty years later the Vietnamese regime signed off on the US-Japanese dominated Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement (TPFTA), which essentially converted Vietnam into a vassal state.