Capitalist Vietnam after end of Vietnam War

Well, what do you mean by capitalist? The US isn't entirely capitalist because of the amount of government regulations.

I think what you mean is US-aligned?
 
A limited nuclear exchange with the USA and USSR against Red China in 1968 after a border skirmish on the Soviet border escalates. US price to join the USSR in taking down a crazed Mao is cutoff of all aid to North Vietnam.

10 years after the 'Spasm War' as it was called, the North collaspes and is taken over by South Vietnam, unifying the Country
 
France pulls out sharpish, supporting an independent government alongside Washington. This limits Communist strength and influence drastically. Question is does Bo Dai rule over a Thai-style monarchy or does a republic form?
 
A limited nuclear exchange with the USA and USSR against Red China in 1968 after a border skirmish on the Soviet border escalates. US price to join the USSR in taking down a crazed Mao is cutoff of all aid to North Vietnam.

10 years after the 'Spasm War' as it was called, the North collaspes and is taken over by South Vietnam, unifying the Country

Why would the US side with the USSR against China, when it did the opposite OTL until the USSR collapsed?
 
How can this happen?
I take it you mean other than historically where the VWP viciously reestablished wage labour in the PRG revolutionary villages, and transformed wage labour in former RVN controlled areas from a comprador smuggling and prostitution economy into a more "soviet-style" wage labour economy?

Or other than historically when market reforms destroyed any remnant social democratic institutions, figuratively and literally prostituting a soviet-style working class to western and Chinese capitalism?

Or do you just mean the formal political ideology of the ruling clique, with no reference to the actual productive relationships on the ground experienced by the working class or controllers of capital?

yours,
Sam R.
 
Honestly, I see a surviving South Vietnam (or unified Republic of Vietnam) as more of a Thailand-like state, rather than as a South Korea/Taiwan analogy, due to the fact that the Republic, after Diem's death, became divided by various generals who wished to rule Vietnam. And besides, Thailand today is capitalist. What say that the Cong Hoa (Vietnamese for Republic) wouldn't be the same?

Another PoD would be to prevent Duy Tan from dying. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duy_Tân) Duy Tan was an emperor of the Nguyen dynasty, but was renowned in Vietnam for, along with his father for resisting the French, as opposed to other Nguyen emperors like Khai Dinh who were effectively French puppets. Duy Tan was educated in the West (noticeably after being exiled to Reunion) and, after World War 2, was on his way to Vietnam to talk some sense into the chaotic situation there, since many Vietnamese respected him. His death in a plane crash in Central Africa marked the beginning of the end for Vietnam, as the only other figure who had that much popularity amongst the people was Ho Chi Minh.
 
Very interesting, I can't pretend South-East Asia is a strong point of mine but I'm shocked I've never heard of Duy Tan, very interesting man from an alternate history perspective .
 
You could almost say that this was the case IOTL. While Vietnam isn't exactly the textbook definition of capitalist nowadays, they've been active participants in the global economy ever since Đổi Mới in 1986. It's one of those weird socialist-oriented market economies where the state-run corporations are the name of the game.

For something a little closer to what you've described, try a lasting ceasefire after '73. South Vietnam might resemble South Korea once the dust settles and the CIA stabilizes things behind the scenes. It would be an authoritarian corporatocracy for a while, though.
 
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