Thanks Ian.

"In 1975, Vietnam was a war-ravaged, rice-growing communist backwater. In 1994, the U.S. imported $50 million in goods from Vietnam..."


How nice...no mention of the fact that between those years the US ran an absolute & punitive economic embargo to try to destroy Vietnam...even to the extent of printing a warning on every single US passport (-I recall being shocked on seeing it on a friends passport at the time) that not even personal items above I think it was $15, could be purchased from there.