China’s potential was always there. The Century of Humiliation was largely self-inflicted. The Qing and their feudal mode of production proved weak against imperialist powers. But once the China was liberated, their rise has always been a historical inevitability.

Since the post (or perhaps even the news) doesn’t give the actual Kanji for this “Kokushobi”, I tried Google’s AI (out of curiousity), and it gives 酷暑日.

Anyway, while 酷暑 doesn’t exist in the Vietnamese dictionary as a compound word at all, I do unfortunately comprehend the spirit of this word by experiencing it myself the last few weeks.

Sorry for late response. I don’t want to risk spreading misinformation because of my hastiness.

I don’t have a great frame of reference for the reparations amounts to the farmers though, would you consider those fair?

I have found a Twitter thread that may explain many things: https://x.com/wrenevans217208/status/1954987545651204386

This guy seems to know more than me, you may ask him.

they really need to start shifting focus from doing business with the US.

And Vietnam is doing it. We signed many bilateral trade deals with China, Brazil, etc. We became a BRICS partner country. And more that I can’t recall from the back of my head atm.