Abstract

A TOP VIETNAMESE DIPLOMAT recently lunched in Paris with a Swedish colleague and in the course of the meal was asked whether he was worried about the danger inherent in his country's present intimate embrace of the USSR. Reportedly he replied: survived French conquest. We survived American hostility. And we can survive Russian friendship. The story may be apocryphal-most such neat stories dealing with Vietnam are-but it does illustrate the paradoxical nature of the subject of this article: current Soviet-Vietnamese relations.

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