I can only speak as my experience as an American (🤮), but I’ve noticed the media hardly ever talks about contemporary Vietnam. Most other AES (and even formerly AES) states get ruthlessly bashed at every opportunity, but I almost never see anything about Vietnam.
Is there a reason for this?
They tried this exact thing in the Soviet era. China had some disagreements with the USSR and the US swooped in and “supported” China, while trying to widen the rift between the two socialist countries.
Well it kind of worked that time, didn’t it?