China has been a remarkably successful economy since its adaptation of market-oriented reforms in 1978. ... In 1986 the government introduced a policy package which is often referred as economic reform (Doi Moi). ... First, a gradualist approach may avoid excessive cost, especially for the government budget (Dewatripont and Roland 1992; Nielsen, 1993). ... Fourth, it helps a government to gain incremental credibility (Fang, 1992). ... China's economic reforms can be divided into separate eras. ...

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With a fast growing economy over the past couple decades; the Chinese government has been heavily invested in its infrastructure. ... Another key reason why investors will remain in China is the Chinese government structure. ... Furthermore, because the Chinese government is communist, it gives China a huge advantage over other developing democratic countries for many reasons. ... In the 1970s, the Chinese government launched a project to establish the Special Economic Zone near the coast of China. ... " (Weige China) With this said, the advantages that China's communist government h...

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Independence and the Rise of Leadership Cambodia and Laos are two countries near China and Vietnam. After World War II they were both fighting with and influenced by Vietnam and China. ... After the Khmer Rouge took power, they looked to China for protection from the Vietnamese. ... Pol Pot was influenced by China's great leap forward. ... The Khmer Rouge killed off all the educated persons, for example, doctors, teachers, students, lawyers, Buddhist Monks, Muslims, western educated people, as well as cripples, people from China and Laos, and retired government officials. ...

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I came from a family of Chinese decent but I was born in Vietnam. ... On my legal paper works I am categorized as Chinese-American. ... It might be that I am a citizen of this country but if the United States government categorized me as Chinese-American because I am a citizen of the United States, then why am I not Chinese-Vietnamese-American because I am also a citizen of Vietnam. ... I asked "What characteristics does a Chinese person have?" ... I might say that I am an American like Mei-Ying because this is my current citizenship or I can say that I am Chinese because of my Chinese dec...

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Moreover, this brings happiness for lots of people and many people support the Dutch government in this work. ... With some feudal country, they will become guilty people with their forefarthers like: China, Japan or even in Vietnam. ...

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The first country is China. ... China has a capitalistic economy and the only part of the country that remains communist is the government. The Chinese people have different wages, and no one obtains similar things in China. ... He stood in front of tanks belonging to the government to show them that the people had taken enough of the government. ... He showed his opinion for the government to see, and he spoke for the entirety of the Chinese people. ...

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Its eastern border is the South China Sea. ... For one thousand years, Vietnam was part of China. ... Chinese political and social institutions were introduced. ... Chinese style also became dominant in literature and the arts. ... The decisions were made on the basis of landholding and sent to the district magistrate for transmittal to the central government. 12. ...

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In 1986, the government implemented reforms and the economy was gradually transformed into a more open, market-oriented system. ... Government revenues were low, the fiscal deficit was large and persistent, and some areas were on the verge of famine. ... Competition with China is also a challenge for Vietnam. China as a member of the WTO and a rapidly growing economy is expected to attract an increasing amount of FDI, in 2000 FDI inflow into China reached US$ 47 billion while the FDI inflow into ASEAN 10 was US$ 12.9 billion; in 2002 FDI in China could amount US$ 50 billion. ... On the ot...

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This humiliating defeat toppled the French government, and it was becoming increasing difficult to maintain colonial possession over Vietnam. ... Bao Dai and loyalist Vietnamese Francophiles created an alternative government in these regions, intensifying debate concerning Vietnam's political future. ... Soon after peasant revolts, the government was required to change its policy to one of "rectification" where officials were demoted. ... By 1958 insurgents of the South began a politically motivated terror campaign, kidnapping and murdering government officials. ... In turn it...

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This siege of government occurred when the Khmer Rouge overthrew the concurrent ruling government, the Khmer Republic, and renamed it the Democratic Kampuchea. ... The cooperatives, or state, owned all land; there was an absence of plots unlike in the Soviet Union or China. ... For instance, the government eradicated the private ownership of land due to the fact that one of the beliefs of the Khmer Rouge was affiliated with the new Cambodian government being a society of equal social class where there is a sense of perfect social equality. ... Additionally, reports were made that the governmen...

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In January 1946, Britain agreed to remove her troops and later that year, China left Vietnam in exchange for a promise from France that she would give up her rights to territory in China. ... The situation improved in 1949 after Mao Zedong and his communist army defeated Chaing Kai-Shek in China. ... When it became clear that France was becoming involved in a long-drawn out war, the French government tried to negotiate a deal with the Vietminh. They offered to help set-up a national government and promised they would eventually grant Vietnam its independence. ... China and the Sov...

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(Tonkin Annam and Cochin China were regions in the North, Central and South Vietnam. ... The Chinese had no sympathy for the French and when they withdrew, they left Ho's government in place. ... The French forced the Viet Minh into the country areas and first Indo-Chinese war had begun. ... By the end of 1949, the situation had radically changed with the success of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Nationalist Chinese. ... In the South, "Cochin China", the communist-led forces were too weak, lacking in arms and effective leadership, to prevail against ...

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However, while Ho Chi Minh established a good relationship with the Chinese. ... The US government committed to a policy of alliance with France, and in the long run, this policy precluded friendship with the DRV and the entire country of Vietnam. ... The Americans gave Bao Dai an over provisional amount of money; because, he had similarities to the U.S. government would have been able to do the same as Ho Chi Minh. ... That it was caused the American government to turn there backs to the Vietnamese. ... So when they had to fight the Americans, Ho Chi Minh was recognized by china and R...

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But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China's civil was made France's war against Ho seem an anticommunist rather than a colonialist effort. ... Subsequent charges that Truman had "lost" China and had settled for a stalemate in Korea caused succeeding presidents to fear the domestic political consequences if they "lost" Vietnam. ... But the Diem government still failed to show economic or political progress. ... A larger in Vietnam also raised the risk of a military clash with China. ... Some postmortems singled out media criticism of ...

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Also, many other countries were involved in their decolonization process like Japan, the United States and at times China. ... The British government allowed some limited self-government in Burma by the 1930s. ... The British recruited most of their officers and government officials from these ethnic tribes. ... At first, he went to China and sought the help of nationalist government of the Kuomintang. ... Once in Japan, the government offered him to supply arms and necessary finance. ...

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Unlike the Korean War and World War Two, the American government decided not to censor it and let the press have free access. ... The war was also a great hindrance on America's economic stature. 13 percent of all government spending by 1968 was on Vietnam. ... Previously China and USSR who were inseparable had fallen out over the easing of pressure on America. ... It could mean the end to the aid given by the USSR and China to Vietnam. ... China did not want to trust America as they had been hostile when it came to Korea and Vietnam. ...

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This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. North Vietnam wanted to have Communism for a government under the influence of Ho Chi Minh, and the South wanted to have democracy, under the influence of the French rule. ... They thought this because the Northern Vietnam was backed by China and Russia. ... Either to help South Vietnam, which was highly impossible because South Vietnam had only consisted of armies with low morale, and all the corrupted leaders and officials, or to fight against communism, ...

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The people and governments of the French, U.S., Vietnam all had different motives for their involvement in the Vietnam War in the years between 1945 and 1975. ... Within days, Emperor Bao Dai abdicated, promising to support the new government as a private citizen. ... The country was then divided along the 17th parallel of latitude, with the south being supported by the United States, and the northern communist lead by Ho Chi Minh was allied by Russia and China. ... Historian Buttinger stated that, "Ho Chi Minh over the years had succeeded in creating for his country as an anti-French, ant...

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We must allow a communist influence in the government instead of attempting to repress a genuinely nationalist revolution, which is the case in Vietnam. ... Ho Chi Minh was forced to ask assistance from major Communist allies - the Soviet Union and China. ... The United States and some 40 other countries supported South Vietnam by supplying troops and munitions, and the USSR and the People's Republic of China furnished munitions to North Vietnam and the Vietcong. ... Neither the U.S. nor the Saigon government agreed to the Geneva accords, but the U.S. announced it would do nothing to da...

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Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given control of the Southern Vietnam while the Chinese were given the Northern Vietnam. The Chinese pulled out from North Vietnam and the French now wanted to take the North Vietnam and quickly were defeated in 1946. ... While democracy is used in Australia and means the population is used to elect a government and representatives. Communist forces in The Vietnam War were: North Vietnam, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Soviet Union, China and North Korea. ...

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It is the eastern half of a long peninsula that extends into the South China Sea from the rest of Southeast Asia, making it just below China on the map. ... Vietnam was decided to have a national election to determine the official government of Vietnam, which unfortunately led to the Vietnam War. ...

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Communism is based around the government owning everything and the people having the right to the same things no matter what their status in society is. As soon as the government becomes corrupt communism falls apart and the system breaks down. ... North Vietnam, Russia, Cuba, As well as china are all or were all communist countries. ... China, which is an active communist country, has just recently stepped into space exploration but they are not the first communists in space the Russian's were. ...

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After World War II and The Korean Conflict, the last thing U.S. citizens wanted was for the government to send troops into Vietnam. ... North Vietnam was aided by Russia and China, but not with soldiers but with finances, supplies and weaponry. ... "The American government initially believed that this conflict would not last more than two years" (Edwards 160). ... The American government controlled South Vietnam, and dictated what its governments steps should be. ... The growing anti-war movement alarmed the U.S. government, and eventually dictated the way the government ran the war. ...

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The Johnson administration kept tight control at first because they feared that if they beat up the NVA to bad then China and the Soviet Union might step in as defenders of communism. ... Bombing was prohibited within 25 miles of the Chinese border, within 10 miles of Hanoi and within 4 miles of Haiphong So, by placing the capital, Haiphong and surrounding areas off limits, the U.S. ... The North Vietnamese government claimed to have dug over 30,000 miles of tunnels under the ground. ...

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Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). Through these sources, the Americans could reaffirm what they had already wanted to believe about the Vietnamese people – that they were an "i...

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