Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "How Vietnam Became an Economic Superstar Under Communist Rule" video.

  1. I don't think that's a definition of democracy. You need party pluralism, universal suffrage, parliamentary privilege and statutory law voting, independent judiciary, habeas corpus and above all, private property legal rights. I'm not trying to conflate this with nationalism either, these are just essential mechanisms to work a democracy.
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  2. The VCP heeded Deng Xiaoping's reforms and implemented it nearly a decade later. Unlike Xi Jinping that wanted the old failed model of state controlled enterprise back again; that may have lead China to it's current deflation. Plus the One Child Policy implementee by Deng; that was a huge demographic aging mistake that Vietnam avoided. Vietnam has problems, but charismatic dictatorship that plagued China, particularly under Mao Zedong, the Soviet Union under Stalin and all the Kims of North Korea has somehow luckily escaped Vietnam. Maybe it's a cultural trait of the Vietnamese not to have the cult of personality in their top leaders.
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