Please click "Follow" above to receive more exciting content in a timely manner. At the beginning of 2023, Vietnam set off a huge anti-corruption storm, six directors and deputy national ** were successively dismissed, and hundreds of subordinates were also implicated. Among them, the high-profile anti-corruption fighter, Vietnamese Prime Minister "Smiling Tiger" Nguyen Xuan Phuc is also unfortunately in prison. Nguyen Xuan Phuc has always been known for his staunch anti-corruption stance, and Chinese netizens even hailed him as the "smiling iron hand", but this time he did not expect to become the tiger that was defeated.
Vietnam's anti-corruption campaign has caused amazement among Chinese netizens, who believe that Vietnam is at the forefront of the global fight against corruption. However, some sharp-eyed netizens noticed something unusual. Almost all of these six big tigers are members of the southern faction, is this the real anti-corruption, or is it a power struggle in the name of anti-corruption?The southern Vietnamese faction has always been famous for its anti-China stance, and this rout of the southern faction is perhaps a good thing for China?The partisan struggle between the North and the South has existed in Vietnam since the founding of the country.
The northern faction is based in the capital Hanoi and the surrounding Red River Plain, while the southern faction has Ho Chi Minh City and the surrounding Mekong Plain as its main sphere of influence. The struggle between the two factions has long been a topic of conversation in people's leisure time. In fact, the differences between the North and the South existed long before the founding of Vietnam. The southern part of the Mekong Delta is closer to the Western maritime civilization due to its good maritime conditions and abundant port resources. As a result, Ho Chi Minh City has been at the forefront of Vietnam's opening up to the outside world since modern times, and its level of economic development far exceeds that of other cities, even surpassing the capital Hanoi.
In contrast, Hanoi and its surroundings were more agrarian, with the roots of the regime taking root in the rural areas. These two very different economic bases inevitably lead to two very different social outlooks. Northerners think that southerners are empty and blindly worship foreigners, while southerners think that northerners are poor, backward, conservative and not open. In fact, a similar situation exists in China, most notably the sense of alienation between Shanghai and the mainland. In the Vietnam War of the last century, the two sides fought fiercely with these two regions as the core. In the end, we all know that the North has won.
However, the annexation of the rich South by the North, like a snake swallowing an elephant, will inevitably lead to indigestion in the end. At that time, the cadres sent from the north to the south to take up administrative posts had no experience in managing southern cities. To restore the economy of the cows, some concessions must be made. As a result, many of the old party members and the younger generation of the South Vietnamese regime were able to escape liquidation and retain their position. These remnants not only escaped justice, but eventually even managed to transform themselves into the senior leaders of the Vietnamese regime. At that time, this open opportunity was provided by Vietnamese leader Le Duan.
Not only is Vietnam divided into two parts, the north and the south, but also the north and the south. Le Duan was a southern faction of the Viet Cong, who grew up in the south and was influenced by the capitalist culture of the south. Thus, despite his cloak of communism, he was in fact a revisionist who leaned towards capitalism. This mistake led to the defeat of the southern wing of the Viet Cong, which he represented. Under the double corruption of the ideas and money of those old party members and young people, the southern faction of the Communist Party of Vietnam completely turned its back on socialism, and even put on the cloak of revisionism and directly sided with capitalism.
Instead of digesting the remnants of capital in the south, the Viet Cong risked being replaced. After decades of reform and opening up, the southern faction has become more and more powerful, and has even developed to the point of reversal. The northern faction of the Viet Cong was clearly the one who conquered the country, but as a result, they were forced to survive in Hanoi. In the country's troika, the positions of chairman and prime minister are in the hands of the southerners, and the northerners have only one general secretary, which means that the right to propose and implement are concentrated in the hands of the southerners, and the northerners only have the final veto.
Don't think that the veto power is powerful, in fact it is the power to suggest and the power to implement that are really powerful. No matter how you veto, it's just a matter of deciding in the ABCD options I gave, who do you say is stronger?The blood of the poor heroes was exchanged for the return of the old world. By 2011, the South, believing itself to be full-fledged, wanted to dismantle the foundations of socialism. They submitted a bill to the National Assembly, the center of power in the center, hoping to repeal the constitutional provision on public ownership.
Nowadays, Vietnam's public ownership has basically become official ownership, and it is not uncommon for the children of the highest levels at all levels to occupy state-owned enterprises and treat them as their own private industries to suck blood. The Southerners, ostensibly opposed to socialism, actually wanted to shake the interests of the politically privileged classes. The war ended with the victory of the southerners, which meant that many state-owned enterprises would be open to the market for mergers and acquisitions by capitalists from private enterprises. After the southern faction succeeded in one fell swoop, it was ready to take advantage of the victory to pursue and completely drive out the northern faction.
In 2013, they dared to submit a bill to the National Assembly to change the name of the country and amend the constitution. If the southern faction succeeds, then the northern faction will lose its legitimacy to govern. Their goal was to almost replicate what Gorbachev had done to bring down the Soviet Union. Fortunately, Vietnamese MPs, fearing that the action would pose a huge problem, rejected the proposal with a large majority. Realizing that they would not succeed in one fell swoop, the Southerners changed their tactics and decided to gradually seize power in the North, thus turning the Whale into a Swallow. Over the years, the northern faction has had a very difficult time.
As the United States transferred its industrial chain to Vietnam in order to contain China, Vietnam's economy began to flourish, and the pro-European and American southern faction became more and more important in terms of discourse, while the position of the northern faction was gradually eroded. If it weren't for Nguyen Phu Trong, the Dinghai Divine Needle, who had been holding his position, the northern faction would have collapsed long ago. However, Nguyen Phu Trong was already very old, and the leader of the southern faction, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, was in the prime of life. This old guy used to deal with the northern faction in the name of anti-corruption, and once he retires, the northern faction will probably be completely wiped out by him.
Nguyen Phu Trong was adamant that he would not want to see this happen, and he had to suppress the arrogance of the southern faction before leaving. Nguyen Phu Trong is saying that the extremes of things must be opposed, and the extremes of prosperity must decline. The arrival of the pandemic and the dollar's interest rate hike not only brought the expansion momentum of the southern faction to an abrupt halt, but also left a fatal loophole, and the northern faction seized the opportunity. Cornered, Nguyen Phu Trong miraculously completed a turnaround against the wind. What the hell is going on here?**Human resentment. Perhaps it has expanded too smoothly over the years, and the top echelons of the Southern faction have gradually become arrogant, and they have become more unscrupulous.
After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Vietnam followed the example of China in carrying out national epidemic prevention work. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dinh, who was in charge of this task, became the head of the Covid Epidemic Prevention and Control Committee, appointed by *** and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. However, during his time in charge of epidemic prevention work, a shocking incident broke out in Vietnam. Yue Ya can be described as knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow!Here's the thing, in the early days of the epidemic, due to the huge demand for nucleic acid test strips for national epidemic prevention, Vietnam's own production capacity could not be satisfied, and the test strips remained high. This leaves profit margins for a pharmaceutical company called VietAsia.
They imported a batch of nucleic acid test strips from China for less than a dollar**, and then changed the label, claiming that this was a new product developed in cooperation with the Military Medical University, and demanded patent fees. During the epidemic, Vietnam**'s various behaviors have caused strong dissatisfaction among the people. Among them, the company sold to the **epidemic prevention department** up to 21 US dollars, with a profit of up to 2,000%, and received a third-class labor medal for it. However, this small company only received 40% of the stolen money, and it was the Ministry of Health of Vietnam who really took the lion's share, and the Minister of Health, Nguyen Thanh Long, was actually one of the six tigers.
The people were outraged by this, believing that it was a self-theft. However, Vietnam** has turned a blind eye to this. In addition, Vietnam also paid out of its own pocket to provide free flights for expatriates working abroad to return to China, but in fact, the subsidies provided by ** were embezzled by **filthy officials, and the expatriates could only pay out of their own pockets, and a Vietnam-US flight cost about 70,000 yuan. This unfair treatment is a chill for the expatriates. Vietnam's corruption problem also involves the first door, and Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh is a confidant of Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Although the corrupt practices of the southern faction are very dissatisfied with the people, as long as the economy is developing well, the power is in the hands of the southern faction. Therefore, to bring down the southern faction in the name of corruption, unless there are economic problems in Vietnam, it is just a dream. Vietnam's economy collapsed, and as people have done before, weak consumption in Europe and the United States has severely affected Vietnam's foreign trade. The import and export data has been growing, but the surplus has not improved, which means that Vietnam has not made any money in the international market, just a "passing God of Wealth".
Vietnam does not have sufficient foreign exchange reserves, and its economic resilience is very fragile. Last year, due to the US dollar interest rate hike, Vietnam suffered a large-scale capital flight, which led to a triple kill of stocks and bonds in the financial market, and the Vietnamese stock index fell below 1,000 points, and the economic situation was precarious. If nothing is done at this time, the dollar will hit Vietnam, buy its high-quality assets at the price of cabbage, and the hard-earned money of ordinary people will flow into the pockets of Wall Street.
It is ironic that the South Vietnamese faction has the right to speak in the economy, and the good economic development is due to its relations with Europe and the United States, but now the United States is actually digging into Vietnam's roots. When Vietnam's economy was on the verge of collapse, Nguyen Phu Trong urgently asked to meet with China, and as a result, he received a life-sustaining gift package from China. In this way, the waist pole of the northern faction became stiff. Nguyen Phu Trong took advantage of this momentum and launched a fierce attack on the southern faction under the pretext of ruling the Ming Dynasty, and finally overthrew the Six Tigers of the South.
The follow-up impact of this incident is: although on the surface, the United States will transfer the industrial chain to Vietnam, but in the end it should be the northern faction that will benefit, because the relationship between those industrial chains and China is an upstream and downstream relationship, and it is impossible to develop without China. This time, the Six Tigers of the South **, not only Nguyen Phu Trong rose for a while, but the northern faction began to raise its head, and the attack and defense changed shape.
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