Vietnam’s view on its relations with the USA: from Ho Chi Minh to To Lam

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The article examines the views of the leaders of the Communist Party of Vietnam on relations with the United States. The works of Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Phu Trong and To Lam, as well as the party congresses documents, have been analyzed. The author concludes that Vietnam's current position on the comprehensive strategic partnership with the United States originates in the views of the first president of independent Vietnam Ho Chi Minh, which are based on a class-based approach to social phenomena, which implies pragmatic cooperation with capitalist countries in the economy and a number of other areas alongside with the rejection of bourgeois ideology and morality of capitalist society.

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Petr Yu. Tsvetov

Institute of China and Contemporary Asia RAS; Diplomatic Academy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation

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Email: proviet99@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3757-8327

Ph.D in history, leading researcher, Center for Vietnam and ASEAN studies, Assistant Professor of chair of international relations

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

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