VIETNAM AFTER THE WAR

FALL OF SAIGON AFTERMATH

• reunited in 1975
• Clinton boosted economy by opening trade
• Became communists with free market

POLITICAL LEADERSHIP

• 1 party communist
• Trương Tấn Sang is current leader
• oppress communist opposition
• suspicious free market

PROBLEMS LEFT OVER

• about 40,000 Vietnamese have been injured/killed
• giant craters
• old traps

CURRENT SITUATION

• major manufacturing center
• 2nd biggest clothes supplier to U.S.
• long running dispute over the South China Sea
• mostly agricultural economy