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We can choose our friends, but we can't choose our neighbors.
Michael W. Michalak
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Michael W. Michalak
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 1
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Detroit
Michigan
Michael Walter Michalak
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From the United States, Vietnam is looking for two things. One of them is a very stable and continuing to expand economic relationship. Secondly, they would like to see the United States remain in the - Southeast Asia, acting as a balancing power to balance out China.
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And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of this balancing power relationship with - against China. They - the Chinese and the Vietnamese have always had a very suspicious relationship of each other.
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For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.
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Vietnam is no longer a war, it's a country. I think that that's very important to understand. And the Vietnamese - last time a poll was taken, somewhere above 80 percent of Vietnamese people have a very positive outlook towards the United States.
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