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I have lost contact with him now but for years I had a Vietnamese friend who had arrived in Australia as one of the so-called "boat people" at the end of the Vietnamese war. After years of work he buit up quite a nice small business in computers (it may have helped that his grandmother had been the owner of a merchant bank in Saigon). In any case when things had calmed down in Vietnam and he was allowed to return to visit friends and relatives he went back to Vietnam for a vist. When he returned he told me that while he was there he had been offered a new factory, rent and tax free, if he set up some form of manufacturing and employed local people. He then went to Taiwan where he purchased a second hand assembly line and signed a contract for the supply of un-assembled televisions (knock-down kits?). A year later he returned and installed a second assembly line.
At a certain point I organised a container load of photocopiers for him (I was a manager in a well known Japanese company). He told me that when the container arrived it "unloaded itself". Buyers queued up with cash in hand, paid, and took their copier directly from the container. In less than an hour he had an empty container.
I asked him if he thought that after all the war, deaths etc., nothing had really changed except the people in power and he agreed that as far as most people were concerned life had got back to normal.
Certainly now Vietnam trades with the whole world; if I look at various items of clothing and shoes that I have, not to mention household items, I would find several "Made in Vietnam".
So in the end perhaps "Vietnamisation" actually worked.