Did vietnam receive any help from united states to help rebuild their country?

Question

did vietnam receive any help to help rebuild their land? i was just at saigon for two weeks and was so surprised at how westernized it is. i do know that it's that fastest growing economy.

i remember reading an article somewhere stating that ever since united states was welcomed back in 1995 (i think that was the year), united states promise x and x amount of dollars to help them rebuild. and according to that article, vietnam haven't received a cent.

Answer 1

I know we did our part in the whole demolition stage of the remodel. Past that, can't tell you.

Answer 2

No, Vietnam did not receive any help from the US to rebuild their country following the Second Indochina (Vietnam) War.

The US promised assistance, but never gave it, instead the US put a embargo on Vietnam.

Answer 3

i definitely agree that Vietnam is growing, especially with their economy.   i was there 3 weeks ago, and i can see that many investors especially investors from Korea and china are pouring huge amount into HCMC.   As far as the US, I believe that Vietnam and the US have a good trading agreement, and you can probably see that with all the product that is being made are from US Companies, ig Nike, Gap, just to name a few.  

The problem between US and Vietnam is Vietnam set such high tariffs, so it makes small business hard to run, and that is why McDonald and Starbucks have not entered the country yet.  

Overall Vietnam is the 2nd country in Asia that is growing huge in economy.   Great place to invest, but need more flexibility.

Answer 4

In spite of some of the "enthusiastic" but uninformed denials above, the USG HAS put money into Viet Nam. It has provided funding through the US Agency for International Development for a number of years - only to selected areas, but money was going to VN when I was working in Washington, DC 8 years ago (and before then no doubt!).

The money was in selected areas, and often funneled through NGO programs. But the US Department of Agriculture has funded several programs, the USG was actively involved with a coco project in the central highlands (I believe) and I am pretty sure it is still being supported.

I was with a US NGO that had two USG-funded activities. The USG was supporting UXO-removal & demining activities.

Do a google search - USAID (directly or indirectly) has been supporting activities, USDA has, and no doubt the embassy has had their own small programs support activities as well.

My salary for working in VN was paid for two years with USG funds.

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I am curious, for the thumbs downers - you don't like knowing the truth, or are you complaining about the truth? Would you prefer that I lie and say, nope no assistance has ever gone to VN from the US, which is a bunch of BS!???

Answer 5

No. Most of rebuild money is from the loan of World bank or other banks around the World.

Answer 6

No. And the States don't even pay money for victims of Orange Agents too. F********

Answer 7

The Us could not help right after they retrieved because Vietnam never surrendered they did not win the war as in the case of Japan who they directly help reconstruct.

But all Asia is westernizing even China, it's call globalization.

Answer 8

The US provides little to help rebuild their country.   Opening tradelines w/ Vietnam, however, is a large step.

A lot of other countries have aided Vietnam tho... much of the newer bridges have been built by the Australians and Japanese....

Most people don't realize there are other factors as to why it is difficult for "American's" to help "rebuild" Vietnam.   Sure Americans don't provide Aid, as much as what people want but they fail to mention that:

AID does not mean FREE MONEY TO DO WHATEVER...  

After going back to Vietnam 2x since I left there... I wanted to give out so much money everytime I go back there but it is like a fricken bottomless pit... the more money you give the more is asked of you.  Even your own family thinks you make it rich here in the US...

C'mon people, give a man a fish he'll eat it all and have nothing left. Teach a man how to fish and he will sustain himself for the rest of his life....

In addition, the corrupt governement is almost like a false monarchy where the rich and in power do not like to share their position.  They speak of socialist views but practice none of it.  In Vietnam, like many 1st world contries who were in their development period, money talks.  You have money in vietnam, you move mountains.  Only problem is you always have to be careful... because they will MILK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU HAVE....

Lol... what a pity that your own people would try to rob from you.

Oh yeah,  I'm Vietnamese.

Answer 9

idk but i'm coming there this summer. (:

YAYY!

Answer 10

no, USA haven't helped! Just after 1995, Vietnam has an open market and international investors started to come because Vietnam has a cheap labor market and giving them special treatment

Answer 11

Hello....... dont you notice what's going on?

US only specialises in country mass destruction not rebuilding. rebuilding never exists in their vocab so they dont have a clue on ways to do it.

when vietnam opened its door in 1995, then US saw great opportunities to exploit the country - natural resources and cheap labour. US never give a cent but US based companies set up a few factories in exploitation of cheap labour, under the pretext of improving vietnam's economy.

pity vietnam coz it was once destroyed by US and now exploited by them.

Answer 12

have u been living under a bowl of pho? USA hasn't give a single dong to vietnam. the rebuilding was due to vietnam's opening up in 1985 following the chinese model which caused millions of foreign dollars to influx in the country.

Answer 13

L D is dead on right about the U.S. government’s recent support efforts in Vietnam. However, many still want to believe otherwise and want to continue persecuting the U.S. for the Vietnam War. For those who continue thinking that way: The war ended over 30 years ago. Stop living in the past and start living in the future. However, if you want to live in the past, then let’s get some facts straight.

Walter B is correct that the U.S. promised to assist North Vietnam to rebuild after the Vietnam War. There was also a promise to normalize relations with North Vietnam that he forgot to mention. He also left out why the U.S. didn’t have to keep such promises. All this was all agreed upon in the Paris Peace Accords, which was to be the end of the Vietnam War when signed on January 27, 1973. However, North Vietnam broke the peace treaty by invading and conquering South Vietnam. Tens of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese were killed and many thousands more were imprisoned and tortured by the communists for years after the Vietnam War ended.

Furthermore, the mentioned embargo was not just U.S. supported. Every free country in the world during that time supported it because Vietnam became an aggressor nation after the Vietnam War ended. Instead of worrying about their own people, Vietnam’s communist government chose to invade and control Cambodia as well as control Laos. What was left of Vietnam’s economy went into the tank and millions of Vietnamese starved to support this.

There are people who want to forget some of these details so they can continue believing the U.S. owes Vietnam something. Personally, I believe the U.S. government owes the Vietnamese people, but not to their government. In able to help the Vietnamese people, the U.S. government has to funnel funds through other organizations and not directly through Vietnam's communist government, which is renowned for corruption. I have worked with several U.S. based organizations helping the Vietnamese who are largely funded by U.S. grants, government organizations or private U.S. money. Those who believe the U.S. is not sending support to Vietnam is not very well informed or just plain ignorant.

The rapid Westernization that you see in Saigon is due to U.S. influence, but not in the way that you may think. South Vietnam had almost 20 years experience with capitalism before falling to communism. That experience was pinnacle in how rapid capitalism and the economy in South Vietnam (especially in Saigon) had taken off much faster than in North Vietnam after Doi Moi (economic reform) was enacted in 1986. Even today, there is a visible difference in the advancement between Saigon and Hanoi. Most Viets (and anyone else who have been to both cities) believe Saigon is easily ten years ahead of Hanoi despite being in the same country.

What you read probably had something to do with a token assistance project from the U.S. to Vietnam that was implemented shortly after the trade embargo was lifted. Funds for that project was only $1,000,000, and was disbursed almost immediately after arriving in Vietnam. This project was more for political reasons than actually being of any significant assistance to Vietnam. The project signified normalized government relations between two former enemies. I don’t recall the exact details of the project. Then again, I need more details about the article you read to link that project to it. Since then, the U.S. government and many private U.S. based organizations had contributed millions more dollars into Vietnam assistance.

Why Vietnam as a whole appears to have rebuilt from the War and modernized has more to do with the failure of communism and the rise of capitalism than any assistance from the U.S. or other countries. Vietnam learned the hard way that a central controlled economy will not work unless the country as a whole wants to remain at substance farming and never advance. Central controlled economics failed in Vietnam as it had in the Soviet Union and the other former communist countries. Vietnam had no choice but to change to a market controlled (capitalist) economy. This led to opening trade and investment with foreign countries and eventually with the U.S. Opening to foreign investment was the catalyst that ignited Vietnam’s economy into what it is today.

One last thing, Vietnam is the second fastest growing economy in Asia. China is the fastest growing economy Asia and the world. I hope all this helps clear things up.

Answer 14

vietnam didn't get any money from United States because they are communist