When I revisited Vietnam in recent years, after reporting from the region during the 1970s, I noted how its rulers had won their wars against France and the United States only to lose out on the economic front, as Communism put them a quarter century behind the roaring “tigers” of East Asia. Now they are struggling to catch up by offering their cheap labor to international investors.
The Vietnam parallel came to mind as I just revisited the countries of the Baltic region–Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia–which gained independence in the self-determination wave following the first World War only to be forcibly …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
