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Ho Chi Minh led a long and ultimately successful campaign to make Vietnam independent. He was president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969, and he was one of the most influential communist leaders of the 20th century. His seminal role is reflected in the fact that Vietnam's largest city is named for him.
The Central Committee is the CPV's most powerful institution. It delegates some of its powers to the Secretariat and the Politburo when it is not in session. When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the Vietnamese leadership, led by Lê Duẩn, began to centralize power.
Three persons served concurrently as head of both the party and state: Hồ Chí Minh (1951–1969), Trường Chinh (1986) and Nguyễn Phú Trọng (2018–2021). Võ Văn Thưởng is the current President of Vietnam after being appointed by the National Assembly on 2 March 2023.
Vietnam has forged comprehensive strategic partnerships — the highest diplomatic designation — with China, India, Russia, and, most recently, South Korea. Many of Vietnam's strategic partners are U.S. allies, such as Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
The Soviet Union was one of the first countries in the world to recognize and formally establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam, laying the foundations for strong and cooperative friendship between the two countries.
Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
The GFP index denotes Vietnam as a Top 20 world power. For 2023, Vietnam is ranked 19 of 145 out of the countries considered for the annual GFP review. The nation holds a PwrIndx* score of 0.2855 (a score of 0.0000 is considered 'perfect'). This entry last reviewed on 01/01/2023.
US News & World Report: Vietnam ranks 30th among world's most powerful countries. The US News & World Report's ranking of the most powerful countries in the world in 2022 has shown that Vietnam ranks 30th with a GDP of 363 billion USD and a population exceeding 98.2 million people.
Vietnam is now considered to be a potential ally of the United States, especially in the geopolitical context of the territorial disputes in the South China Sea and in the containment of Chinese expansionism.
An individual in Vietnam now needs a net wealth of $160,000 to join the so-called '1 percent club' of the richest people in the country of 98 million. There were 19,491 people with a net worth of $1-30 million last year, down 6 percent from 2019. This number is projected to reach 25,812 in 2025.
The People's Army of Vietnam Special Forces Arms (Vietnamese: Binh chủng Đặc công), officially the Special Operation Force Arms or Special Operation Arms, is the elite combat armed service of the People's Army of Vietnam, led by the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army.
James Lockhart's combat memoir The Luckiest Guy in Vietnam, is a two-for-one surprise. In one book we hear about both his tours as an infantry officer in Vietnam. He first details his initial deployment, where he served as a mortar platoon and recon platoon leader in the famous “Americal” Division.
By far and beyond the Australians. In fact, the Americans are only above the South Koreans and South Vietnamese when it comes to ground troops, whereas the Australians were the most feared and the rest of SEATO were somewhere in the middle.
He was more than willing to use violence to further his political ends. During the revolution in August 1945, for example, several non-communist journalists and politicians were arrested and executed by the communist coalition “Vietminh” forces, apparently with Ho's tacit approval.
The question of who won the Vietnam War has been a subject of debate, and the answer depends on the definition of victory. Those who argue that the United States won the war point to the fact that the U.S. defeated communist forces during most of Vietnam's major battles.
Vietnam's shift from a centrally planned to a market economy has transformed the country from one of the poorest in the world into a lower middle-income country. Vietnam now is one of the most dynamic emerging countries in East Asia region.
Such an explanation may hold even though Vietnam has a per capita income that is 60 per cent higher than India's, and also higher than that of the Philippines (the poorest of the original Asean-5 as they are called).
Although the war ended where it began, the United States and its allies did succeed in preventing communism from overtaking South Korea.
China had become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia.
The conventional view remains that the United States lost the Vietnam War because our opponent, North Vietnam, conquered the side we backed, South Vietnam, which surrendered in April 1975.