<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Even in this article -- mostly about geopolitical concerns in the region vis-a-vis Vietnam, the U.S., and China -- the issue of Monsanto and GMOs crops up again. The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, which are being conducted in secret, are expected to open the door more widely for companies like Monsanto, Dow, and Syngenta to come into countries like Vietnam and bring GMO seeds and crops with virtually no restrictions that can be imposed by the Vietnamese government.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">During a short hiatus in the US bombing
of North Vietnam, an American intellectual was invited to visit Hanoi in
1970 and lecture at a local college.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The first morning he arrived he was taken
to the war museum to listen to “long lectures with dioramas about
Vietnamese wars with China many centuries ago.” <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“The lesson was clear,” the American
intellectual said on condition of anonymity. “[The US] happens to be
destroying [Vietnam] now, but you’ll leave. China will always be here.”</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The Americans left and are back, this
time as an ally, in a development that has intrigued observers and
scholars because it takes place at a time East Sea tensions have risen
again between Vietnam and China.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">More than 1,000 years of occupation and
three deadly wars in the 1970s and 1980s provides the historic context
for the anti-China sentiment that has run deep in Vietnam for long,
analysts say.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">They also say that given the longer
periods of French colonialism and Chinese aggression against Vietnam,
and given the strategic importance of the US in the world after 1975, it
should not come as a surprise that the Vietnamese people and their
government are ready to put the past behind them more quickly with the
US.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“The Vietnamese have been more willing to
forgive the US than other countries with which they have been at war,”
said Edwin Martini, author of <i>Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam</i>, 1975-2000 and an associate professor of history at Western Michigan University.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“American visitors to Vietnam, myself
included, have long been fascinated by the Vietnamese willingness to
‘forgive, but not forget’ the horrors of the Vietnam War, particularly
when compared with the legacies of French colonialism and the deeply
rooted historical tensions with China,” Martini told <i>Vietweek</i>.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">A 2010 Associated Press-GfK Poll,
considered “one of the most exhaustive surveys to date of contemporary
Vietnamese attitudes,” found that 56 percent of 1,600 Vietnamese
surveyed across the country said they rarely, if ever, think of the
Vietnam War, which ended in April 30, 1975. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Only 11 percent said they think about it
often. Fifty-five percent said the war had not affected them directly, a
result that may reflect how young the population is: two-thirds of the
90 million strong Vietnamese population were born after the war.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">"The Vietnamese have a tradition of being tolerant and forgiving and looking to the future rather than the past," the <i>AP</i> report quoted Pham Chi Lan, former vice chairwoman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as saying.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thirty-eight years after the end of
Vietnam War, such perceptions are gaining relevance in the context of
increased Chinese aggression over the extensive claims it is illegally
making over the strategically important and resource-rich East Sea,
internationally known as the South China Sea.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Naval muscle</b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The US Navy destroyer USS Chung-Hoon and
the salvage ship USNS Salvor docked April 21 in the central port of Tien
Sa in Da Nang City. The deployment of the guided-missile carrier comes
at a time when China has publicly flexed its naval muscles in waters off
the Vietnamese coast.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Two days later, Le Thanh An, t<font face="Arial" size="2">he
US Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, visited the Da Nang-based
administration office of the Hoang Sa (Paracels) Islands and held
discussions with local government officials. <font face="Arial" size="2">Vietnam
appointed a Da Nang government official as Hoang Sa mayor in 2009 in a
largely symbolic move to assert sovereignty over the archipelago, which
has been occupied by China since 1974.</font></font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font><font face="Arial" size="2">
</font></font></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font size="2">Also
in Da Nang, the US announced on April 24 that funding for a project to
clean up dioxin, the toxic chemical left behind by Agent Orange at a
former American airbase, would double to US$84 million.</font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font size="2"><br></font></font></font></font></font></div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">These events have been widely covered in
the press and well received by the public, who also express hopes that
the US presence in the region will act as a bulwark for Vietnam against
China’s belligerence. <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">But several experts have said the event
must be considered from a global geopolitical point of view: Da Nang is a
strategic deep water harbor in the East Sea, where China is rapidly
expanding its military, economic and civilian presence.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">"There is a geopolitical significance to
these activities and their location in central Vietnam," said Carl
Thayer, a maritime analyst with the University of New South Wales in
Australia.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Since US President Barrack Obama
announced a “pivot” toward the economically resilient Asia-Pacific
region in late 2011, the US has maintained it will play a neutral role
in the East Sea dispute. <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">But critics say the pivot toward Asia in
foreign and defense policy has already rattled the region and increased
tensions between Washington and Beijing with the latter viewing it as a
move to contain its military and economic growth.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“The US wants to play a role in every
place in the world, and may see Vietnam as one key to a stronger
military presence in Asia,” said Chuck Searcy, a US war veteran who has
spent 18 years working to clean up the war-leftover land mines and
unexploded ordnance in Vietnam.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“Vietnam must be very cautious about
alignments which might be misinterpreted, which could create problems
that escalate out of Vietnam’s control, problems that might have been
prevented,” Searcy said.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Embargo delay</b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The two former foes normalized relations
in 1995 after a post-war, US-led embargo had strangled Vietnam for two
decades, but it is not well known that the normalization could in fact
have taken place much earlier.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">In his seminal book, <i>Brother Enemy</i>,
author Nayan Chanda says American banks and oil companies were invited
to Hanoi as early as 1976 to explore possibilities of trade and
financial relations. <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“They [the Vietnamese government] wanted
to seek everyone’s help. It was this embargo that prevented western
countries from helping Vietnam,” he told <i>Vietweek</i> in a 2010 interview.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">But this fact is not brooded over. A
majority of Vietnamese believe that normalization of ties with the US
was a crucial factor in the stunning economic growth in Vietnam.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“The country’s economy has changed a lot
since the US normalized relations with Vietnam,” said Tang Van Trong,
who joined the navy of the US-backed regime during the war. “Without the
normalization, livelihoods and opportunities would not have improved
for everyone.”</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Trans-Pacific Partnership <br></b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Many people have high hopes that Vietnam
and the US will soon ink an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP). Pledges have been made from the two sides to fast track the TPP
negotiations.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The pact is seen as key to ensuring the
United States helps to write the rules for trade in the Asia-Pacific
region and is not left on the outside as countries organize
manufacturing, agriculture and service sectors around China, a <i>Reuters</i> report said.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">It aims to phase out tariffs on most
goods traded between the countries over 10 years and tackle "21st
century issues" such as the role of state-owned enterprises in trade,
government innovation policies, cross-border data flows and supply chain
management, </font><font face="Arial" size="2">it added.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">US government offcials have said the TPP
should help US exports in machinery, aircraft, medical instruments,
agriculture and other sectors.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Those who defend the TPP say the deal
would encourage multinational companies to invest in Vietnam, because
they would be able to export to the US easily.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“The US is Vietnam’s largest export
market. If you can lower barriers to entry then Vietnam will benefit,”
said Jonathan Pincus, a Ho Chi Minh City-based economist with the
Harvard Kennedy School’s Vietnam program.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“What you have to give up in order to get that access is up to the negotiations,” Pincus said.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">But few Vietnamese reports have focused on what experts say are legitimate concerns about the TPP. <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“The negotiations and text are shrouded
in secrecy, yet leaks indicate that the US is trying to use the treaty
to impose restrictive intellectual property rules that could prove
incredibly damaging to developing countries,” said Michael Geist, a law
expert with the University of Ottawa.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“This is certainly true for Vietnam, which should be very cautious about an agreement that may not be in its national interest.”</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Analysts concur that the US-Vietnam - China relations balance is a major issue affecting the TPP. </font><font face="Arial" size="2"> <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Monsanto specter</b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">One example of what awaits Vietnam as it
forges closer ties with the US has been seen in the facile entry of
Monsanto into the country. The single largest producer of Agent Orange
during the war, the US corporation has been allowed to carry out lab
research and tests on the highly controversial genetically modified
organisms (GMOs) in Vietnam.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Critics of GM crops say this is not good
news since they are illegal and most Vietnamese remain clueless about
and indifferent to the worldwide debate swirling around them. Besides,
since GMOs are categorized in Vietnam under the fancy umbrella name of
biotechnology, there is a belief among some people that genetically
engineered crops are an excellent agricultural innovation.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Indeed, while the news of two Chinese
spraying an unknown kind of chemicals on pineapple plants made it way to
the front page of <i>Tuoi Tre</i> (Youth) newspaper, one of the two
top dailies in Vietnam, the local media coverage on the effects of GMO
has received scant coverage.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">“I do wonder what the reaction in Vietnam
would be if and when the Vietnamese people find out that the GMOs being
pushed in the area are largely produced by Monsanto,” Martini said.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Heart and mind struggle</b></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The US and China seem destined to compete for the heart and mind of Vietnam and Southeast Asia, analysts say.</font> <br></div><div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The fundamental question for Southeast
Asia is whether it can resist these new outside influences – currently
manifest in the East Sea disputes - and sustain its own centrality in
maintaining the security of the region.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">"Unfortunately for Southeast Asia, this
struggle will tacitly force Asian countries to choose between the two,"
said Mark Valencia, a Hawaii-based expert on the East Sea dispute.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Valencia pointed out that </font><font face="Arial" size="2"> supposed
neutrals like Indonesia and Malaysia are now, reluctantly or not,
leaning toward the US. Of course Singapore, as a “strategic partner,”
and the Philippines, as a US ally, are already “there", he said. <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thailand is a holdover US military ally
from another era. But if its behavior during the Second World War is any
guide, it will bend toward the most powerful, he said.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">And the US has even made political
inroads in Myanmar — heretofore a staunch China supporter — while former
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unusual but
understandable visit to incoming ASEAN chair Brunei in September 2012,
he added.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">But this Western “invasion” has not
completely erased the ancient influence of Chinese culture—and the
respect for, and fear of, China. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">"Many Southeast Asian countries are fundamentally realistic and take the long view. China will always be there," Valencia said.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">"Their valid concern is that this
upstart—the US—and its power, both soft and hard, may eventually recede
like the outgoing tide only to be replaced by a Chinese storm surge."</font></div><br></div><br><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>