Vietnam has long been expected to become one of the world’s top 50 largest economies by 2050, benefitting from Special Economic Zones of reduced taxes and government investment in much the same way as China. Vietnam is governed as a one party state and the ruling communist party is open about their Marxist–Leninist ideology, the party is steeped in the history of Ho Chi Minh thought and still requires that university students are educated this way. There seems to be varying opinions on whether Vietnam is a truly communist country at present or if it has truly been absorbed by the global market economy. What do you think ?

