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Vietnam’s 40 Years of Peace and Dubious Prosperity

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May 12, 2015
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It is over now and the parades through the city are finished, but last week marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the Fall / Liberation of Saigon. In the lead-up there were all sorts of reminiscences over the war and long profile pieces on Vietnam today and how it looks back at the “American War.”

I was based in Hanoi for just ove…

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