lool My good friend Niceguy, i already told you no country is a 'friend'(much less long time one lol) of another one in politics. The earlier you remove that word friend from your mind, then the earlier you will start seeing things more realistically(though as common civilians you are my good real friend though.
). Geo politics is a very dirty/complex game for those who dont understand it/or just believe in what politicans/officials/our mainstream media says. The U.S, Russia, France and even less so India(who doesnt even have any capabilities to help Vietnam in any way at the moment) will still rather deal with a weak/poor/dependent Vietnam than otherwise believe me. Afterall if you become strong/wealthy/independent enough then you might start having ambitions or different interests from theirs as well, since you will be more able to look at your own interests more agressively, what makes you think they dont know that. This is without talking about all the deals/weapons they wont be able to reap off Vietnam if you were to be able to develop your own weapons systems(thats billions gone off for them). Moreover they already know that no matter how they might try, Vietnam doesnt really stand any chance against China in a Naval confrontation to be honest. So all they will do is just issue verbal support to you and keep selling you their weapons(boosting their weapons industries/employment). You say they are helping Vietnam improve transparency? and you even mentioned France among them on this?
France i know this country very very very well, since my parents were ethnic french, and i have studied international relations in France and grew up/lived there for a long while and have visited/lived in several french former(and current) colonies.
So hearing you say France is helping you increase transparency is the biggest joke of the century.
The french are the biggest fraudsters out there, they are among the only eueuropean former colonial power i would say are worse than even us.
You are indeed lucky you kicked them out after a bloody war(though aided by the soviets and Chinese), had Vietnam remained under france or be granted 'independence' by France 'peacefully/voluntarily' then believe me you will be even in a much worse shape today than you are now.
How many french former colonies have you seen who can be said to be prosperous today?
They would milked the hell outta you bro. Dont even go there. Anway let me leave ma belle France on here. Lets continue with the topic at hand. Vietnam as i said should count first and foremost on itself, if/when you have set up a proper functioning government/skilled workforce/streamlined investment policies/improved your transport networks making it easier to move goods to consumers/overseas etc then investors will inevitably flow into Vietnam, it has nothing to do with friends bro.
Moreover the soviets and the Chinese did help north Korea bro, without them they wouldnt be any North Korea today at all. They both did since it served their interests back then to push the U.,S outta their sphere of influnce/neighbourhood. You say Russia will support Vietnam to contain China?
I hope you are joking bro?
Right now the last thing Russia wants from Vietnam(which to be honest, it doesnt have the capabilities to at all by the way) is containing China. They both have a much more deeper/mutual world interest/relationship with the Chinese than with little Vietnam. You dont even future in their radar when they look at the big picture to be honest. coupled with our sanctions on stubborn Russia, it has even deepen their relationship even more. So forget about moscow, if you ever have any conflict with China, then expect them to stay quite(and even support the Chinese silently), since they have nothing much to gain from Vietnam, as they know you will keep buying their weapons which is all they want/get from you anyway. As for the U.S they already have bases spread all over the region and they patrol the SCS all along, so the only thing Vietnam can help in this regard is by providing a military base to the U.S close to China, so they can betteer monito their activities(though i know VCP wont agree obviously).Vietnam can be of use to the U.S as a leveraged against China though, but not really a credible deterent to contain China, that title belongs to Japan, who has all the capabilities to this.
As for India is simply a NO comment........
So Vietnam should care/believe only on itself and strive as much as possible to develop, since its only through developing into a wealthy country, that you do attract others respect/attention/consideration. They will never help you get there, since they themsleves have their own issues to sort out, and you are better off weak to them anyway. Vietnam should wake up and smell the coffee.