Insanity in Vietnam

Army-enforced lockdowns, spiraling case counts... and a new mass vaccination campaign. Coincidence, no doubt.

Until this summer, Vietnam was a Covid success story.

Many Americans still think of Vietnam as a poor country of rice farmers. In fact, Vietnam’s economy has surged since 2000 as it picks up manufacturing priced out of China, its historic foe to the north. Fewer than 10 percent of Vietnam’s 100 million people now fall below the global poverty line.

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