Ho Chi Minh Thought on Foreign Policy and International Trade

Filipino communists clamor for an isolationist, protectionist Philippines. However, one of the Dakilang Guros, Ho Chi Minh, whose face is somehow never raised during CPP-NPA rallies, called for foreign policy. These words from the Vietnam Consulate give an idea of Ho's thoughts on foreign policy:

President Ho Chi Minh is a great leader of Viet Nam and also the founder of Viet Nam’s modern diplomacy and the State of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam in 1945. Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts on diplomacy form an integral part of his thoughts on Viet Nam’s revolutionary lines. It is a system of theories, viewpoints and outlooks on the world and our times, international policy lines, diplomatic strategy and tactics. Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts combine Viet Nam’s traditional diplomacy and the quintessence of various cultures and diplomatic experience in the world. Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts view national independence and together with it socialism as the guiding principle of foreign policy. While upholding fundamental national rights, independence and self-reliance, Ho Chi Minh thoughts advocate the combination of the strength of the nation with that of the times, emphasizing the role of international solidarity and cooperation as manifested in Viet Nam’s desire to develop foreign relations characterized by openness, mutual interests and friendship with all democratic nations and freedom from animosity. This is also the guideline of Viet Nam’s diplomacy.

The Vietnam Plus also shares this insight on Ho's policies:

Opening the door, integration for development

During his journey to seek a right revolutionary path for Vietnam, President Ho Chi Minh formed the thought on the issue of opening the door for integration.

In an article published on the L’Humanite newspaper on August 2, 1919, he wrote that in terms of principles, common progress depended on the development of internationalism and civilisation could only be beneficial when international relations were expanded and enhanced.

After the success of the 1945 August Revolution, President Ho Chi Minh considered the expansion of international relations and sending of personnel to other countries to learn advanced sciences and technologies necessary for the socioeconomic development in Việt Nam.

In his letter sent to then US Secretary of State James Byrnes on November 1, 1945, the Vietnamese leader put forth the initiative of building people-to-people diplomacy to start cooperative ties between the peoples of the Vietnam and the US.

His strategic thought on an open economy was mentioned most fully and clearly in the “Appeal to the United Nations” issued in December 1946. In this letter, he stated that with democratic countries, Vietnam was ready to carry out the open door and cooperation policy in all fields:

a. Vietnam would create favorable conditions for investment from foreign companies into all of its industries.

b. Vietnam was ready to expand ports, airports and roads for international trade and transit.

c. Vietnam accepted to take part in all international economic cooperation organisations under the leadership of the United Nations.

d. Vietnam was ready to sign special security agreements and conventions related to the use of some of its naval and air force bases with naval and ground forces within the framework of the UN. 

Throughout the revolution, those viewpoints reflected the President’s far-sighted vision.

That's why North Korea and Venezuela aren't real socialist states because they FAILED. The Komunistang Sosyal state of Vietnam had created various conditions that had defeated both countries. To be a Komunistang Sosyal, one needs to go beyond just buying iPhones and MacPROs. One must become ready to let the iPhones and MacPROs manufacture in the glorious Communist state. American socialists are also too lazy. If those bozos want an iPhone - they must WORK FOR IT.

That would be why Ho's thought is not with the CPP-NPA. Neither is Deng Xiaoping. CPP-NPA sympathizers are saying that China and Vietnam aren't truly Communists. A shame that those bozos have been buying Apple products while opposing FDIs. Vietnamese today get better access to iPhones because of a Vietnamese branch of an Apple factory. This was carried to another great man, the late Nguyen Duy Cong (Do Muoi) who died on a Red October. 

Ho was also once a pastry chef. With enough power, the proletariat can balance things.With him, he seized the flan from the French and made banh flan.