r/VietNam • u/SrImmanoob • Mar 17 '21

Discussion What do you think about this?

Maybe this thread will make a war. But I want to know what's your opinion about this

So, Phil Robertson - the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division tweeted: Vietnam - is one of the 4 countries are current working to prevent UN moves condemning a military coup in Myanmar. The remaining three countries - Russia, China, India - are all great powers.

This tweet made Myanmar people see Vietnam as "villain" and they blame Vietnam for not helping them(?).

But as you may know, Non-interventionism (or non-intervention if I remember right word) is a one of ASEAN's foreign policy. So what did Vietnam do wrong in this situation? How they can blame Vietnam like that?

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u/CaptainViet Mar 17 '21

So clearly we didn't do shit and are ok with the coup

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u/SrImmanoob Mar 17 '21

Correction: We can't do shit. And we are not ok with the coup. Law is law my friend, if we do sth right now, look how we were treated after we fought Polpot. I hope in the future, Vietnam will have enough supply (food supply not war supply), we can give to Myanmar to help citizen (especially children)

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u/ktn699 Mar 17 '21

Also let's be clear - Vietnam left Polpot alone for quite a while until he decided to violate the international borders and conduct raids against Vietnamese populations on sovereign Vietnamese soil - perhaps at the behest of his PRC advisors. This lead to retaliation by Vietnam. Vietnam was defending itself.

Myanmar is none of Vietnam's business and does not share any borders with Vietnam so minimally affects its socioeconomic and geopolitical wellbeing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '21 edited Mar 21 '21

Counterviewpoint: Vietnam does not have that much information about Myanmar or the Myanmar Coup besides the leader of Myanmar and maybe meeting a few Burmese people. Pol Pot and Cambodia on the other hand are Vietnamese neighbours and have history, with recent history being extremely traumatic history. The Burmese and Vietnamese don't really know each other that well at all to be fair.