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The best solution for Ukraine is to ask Mr. Putin to stop the war, ceasefire, maintain the status quo, and then use peaceful means to reclaim the territory later
W.Minh Tuan American politics is changing rapidly like a whirlwind, which is having a negative impact on the situation in Ukraine. The President of Ukraine should look at the Vietnam War to draw lessons for Ukraine. What is that lesson?
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Remember Mr. Chu Van An, and think of the wakeup intellectual and sleeping intellectual today
W.Minh Tuan From “The Seven Beheadings Letter” by Mr. Chu Van An,,, Mr. Chu Van An is one of the most famous intellectuals in our country’s 4,000-year history of civilization, bỏn from Thanh Tri district, Hanoi today. The year he was born is unknown, but he died in the year Canh Tuat 1370, during the…
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If Mr. Trump is elected President of the United States for a second term in 2024, it is possible that the war in Ukraine will end quickly, with the condition of “Maintaining the status quo”
W.Minh Tuan New York City Circuit Judge Arthur Engoron announced on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, that Mr. Trump and his sons committed years of fraud in declaring the value of their assets of Mr. Trump’s Manhattan skyscraper – Manhattan’s Trump Tower.
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The University of Van Mieu-Quoc tu giam-UVQ should be restored
W.Minh Tuan In 2006, US Secretary of Defense Donal H. Rumsfeld visited Hanoi. He was taken to visit the Temple of Literature, and was introduced to this as the oldest university in Vietnam.
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Nguyen Ai Quoc’s 8-point claim in 1919 sent to the Versailles Conference, France
Introduction World War I (1914-1918) ended, the winning countries met at Versailles Castle, France, on June 28, 1919, to discuss ensuring peace after the war. US President Woodrow Wilson also attended this Conference. At that time, US President Wilson was very famous for his 14-point Declaration announced in 1918, in which, at Point 14, this…
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Perhaps Russian President Putin was right: “The war will end when Ukraine exhausts all its resources.”
W.Minh Tuan Recently, at the Eastern Economic Forum – EEF – an international economic conference in Siberia, Russia, on September 13, 2023, Russian President Putin announced to international guests that “The war will end when Ukraine exhausts all its resources.”
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Vietnam should also humbly learn from China’s experience in socio-economic development
W.Minh Tuan In 2003, China’s GDP was only 1,400 billion USD, per capita income was only 1,000 USD/year. After only nearly 8 years, by 2011, their GDP had increased more than 3 times, 5,700 billion USD, the second largest in the world, taking over the position that the Japanese occupied for 43 years.
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Some Vietnamese people are suffering from the dangerous disease ‘ Embarrassing nervous breakdown’. How is the cure?
W.Minh Tuan I just returned to Vietnam recently, walking on the sidewalk of Le Van Huu street, Hanoi, near Huong Lien Obama BUN CHA noodle shop.
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Letter of President Ho Chi Minh to the People’s Committees of States, Provinces, Districts and Villages
W.Minh Tuan Introduction On September 2, 1945, President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence, giving birth to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam has just been established for a few days, and among State officials from central to local levels, many evils have arisen that oppress…
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Some unique thoughts of President Ho Chi Minh are expressed in his works
Minh Tuan Ho Chi Minh’s ideology on democracy and freedom is mainly expressed in the following 7 works: 1- Nguyen Ai Quoc’s 8-point claim sent to the Versailles Conference on June 18, 1919. According to the website of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee:
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Human rights in Vietnam are not perfect, but are getting better
W.Minh Tuan A recent issue of the Washington Post has an article titled “Foreign policy is increasingly disappearing in debates of the US Republican Party.”
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Courageous journalism helps the Party. The cowardly press harms the Party
W.Minh Tuan In 1986, our Party began to carry out the Doi Moi process. In 1987, General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh wrote short articles “Things to do immediately” published in Nhan Dan newspaper.
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Professor Nguyen Minh Thuyet, former Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly’s Culture Committee, said: “The 2013 Constitution amendment to the 1992 constitution is full of literary textes, but unconstitutional sentences.”
(According to Vietnam Education Newspaper-2013) In 2013, the Vietnamese State drafted amendments to the 1992 Constitution. But these amendments were mostly literary, less constitutional.
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New Caledonians did not want independence from the French
W.Minh Tuan Tan Dao country in the past The famous British captain named James Cook first discovered New Island-New Caledonia on September 4, 1774. It was Captain Cook who named this beautiful, prosperous island New Caledonia, to commemorate his hometown in Scotland, because the name Caledonia is the old, Latin name of Scotland. And now,…
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Norwegian Professor Stein Tonnesson, and the 1946 Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
W.Minh Tuan Professor Tonneson Stein, Director of the Norwegian Institute of Peace Research, is very sympathetic to Vietnam. He has many research projects on Vietnam. He wrote a book about the August Revolution by French language-he is very fluent in French language, and English- and he researched many other contemporary issues of Vietnam.
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Former US Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper said: “More and more young Americans are too sick to join the US military.”
W.Minh Tuan Former US Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper recently wrote an article in the Washington Post newspaper, September 24, 2023 issue, said that “More and more young Americans are too sick to join the US military.”
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Russian President Yeltsin exonerated Tsar Romanov Nicola II who was unjustly killed in the October Revolution, 1917
Introduction On October 10, 1917, Lenin led the Bolsheviks party in the “Great Russian October Revolution”, building the Union State of the Soviet Socialist Republic. In the early days of building the Soviet Revolution, many childish, hasty, and wrong things happened, and one of those mistakes by the Bolsheviks was to kill Tsar Nicola Romanov…
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We Vietnamese should learn from Singapore about its miraculous development, but should not learn from harsh rule
W.Minh Tuan I have said that Singapore is not the happiest country in the world. In 2022, the happiness level of Singaporeans was only rank about 20th in the world. However, Vietnam is ranked about 76th, so if I say that Vietnam should learn from Singapore’s development, it wouldn’t be strange.
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The wonderful, immortal values of the Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945
W.Minh Tuan 68 years ago, on September 2, 1945, President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence giving birth to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The unique thing in Vietnam’s Declaration of Independence is that Uncle Ho named the country the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, not the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Great speech by US President Bill Clinton more than 20 years ago, in Hanoi
Introduction At the end of 2000, US President Bill Clinton visited Vietnam, opening the door to friendly relations between the two former enemies Vietnam and the United States. President Bill Clinton gave a wonderful speech at the reception of President Tran Duc Luong on the evening of November 17, 2020 in Hanoi.
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The great values of the first Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1946
W.Minh Tuan 67 years ago, on November 9, 1946, the first National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam met at the Hanoi Opera House and passed the first Constitution, the Constitution 1946. President Ho was the Head of the drafting committee of the 1946 Constitution.
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Vietnam should learn from Singapore: The government builds houses and sells them cheaply to the people, not letting real estate sharks get rich on public land
W.Minh Tuan Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew was born on September 16, 1923, and graduated from Fitzwilliam University of Law – England in 1949. After graduating from university in England, he returned to Singapore to practice law in Singapore.
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Let’s learn from our ancestors and from Ho Chi Minh on how to train and utilize talents without partisanship
W.Minh Tuan During our ancestors’ time, selecting people to become mandarins was mainly through examinations. Everyone has the right to take the exam, and if they pass the exam, and are talented and virtuous, they will be appointed as a mandarin, regardless of whether that person is rich, poor, the son of a mandarin, or…
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How to restore Vietnamese culture that is being destroyed and corrupted?
W.Minh Tuan What has been the culture of Vietnamese people since ancient times? It means living a merciful and generous life, “loving others as if you loved yourself”, “Hit those who run away, not those who run back”.
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Hanoi during the French colonial period, elegant and cultured
W.Minh Tuan (According to Hanoi Moi newspaper) The French came to colonize Vietnam around the 1850s, and brought with them French culture, French style, French economy, French administrative management, and the organizational structure of the State apparatus in the French style, and French language. French entered Vietnam, but still did not destroy the ancient Vietnamese…
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After 10 years, Vietnam has increased 20 places in the level of happiness of its people
W.Minh Tuan In 2011, the United Nations established the World Happiness Report organization – WHP – World Happiness Report. In 2012, for the first time in the world, WHP issued a National Happiness Report, giving the happiness index of 157 countries. The happiness level of countries is based on the following criteria:
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South Korea’s “Empty Barrel Makes a Loud noise” program, about South Korea training a Brigade of 3,000 special forces to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
W.Minh Tuan (According to world press) A few years ago, South Korea publicly announced a training program for the Special Forces Brigade called “Spartan 3000”, whose mission is to infiltrate and assassinate leader Kim Jong-un and other high-ranking North Korean officials.
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President Ho Chi Minh talked about resolving the injustices of the people
Introduction In 1945, right after the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was born, there were many unjust cases of people, caused by State officials at all levels. Especially in Zone 4, that is, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, the hometown of President Ho Chi Minh, and the cradle of the Vietnamese revolution. It seems that the more…
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Today’s “servants” are indeed very rich and luxurious. “Servants” should learn and follow Ho Chi Minh’s Thought on revolutionary ethics
W.Minh Tuan A few years ago, public opinion in Vietnam was stirred up about a convoy of 57 cars carrying “servants” of local leaders to visit Ben Tre province. This convoy of 57 vehicles also has traffic police leading the group, on both sides of the road there are commune police standing guard, behind are…
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Anti-corruption, but must have a high salary of “Preserving integrity”, and should give “Earning merits to atone for sins”
W.Minh Tuan Anti-corruption must go hand in hand with high salaries of “Preserving Integrity”. Our Party and State of Vietnam are very strict in fighting corruption. Arrests of corrupt officials, trials, and imprisonment of corrupt people are receiving a lot of attention from domestic and foreign public opinion, and most of these cases are supportive…
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Russian President Putin said: “The war in Ukraine will continue until the Ukrainians exhaust all resources.” But Ukraine’s resources are the resources of the entire peace-loving world
W.Minh Tuan In 2015, Mr. Putin signed a decree establishing the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) to attract domestic and foreign investment into Russia’s remote Far East-Siberia region, to help this region develop.
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I guess in US, November 2024 election, many American voters will vote for Mr.Trump, not because Mr.Trump is perfect, but because Biden is boring person
W.Minh Tuan Next year 2024 will be the voting day of American to chose the 47th President of United States of America. Until now, the August of 2023, a Former President Donald Trump is leading candidate of all other candidates, even though Mr.Trump has got 3 indictments for his wrongdoing in the past. If there…
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Let Mr Biden get the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th shots of new vaccines of Moderna, Pfizer, BioNtech SE, and of the Novavax
W.Minh Tuan In August 2023, vaccine companies again launched new advertisements for new vaccines, which are more effective against Covid-19, against “new variants”.
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The Americans seemed happy when the Russians failed to launch the Luna-25 spacecraft to the moon in August 2023
W.Minh Tuan On August 11, 2023, the Russians launched the Luna-25 spacecraft to the moon, weighing 1605 kg, scheduled to August 21, after 10 days of flight, will land on the moon’s south pole. But it did not land lightly, instead, it crashed to the moon unexpectedly, and lost all signal.
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Türkiye will participate in the construction of Vietnam’s Long Thanh airport, near Saigon, to replace Tan Son Nhat airport
W.Minh Tuan The world knows that Turkey with President Erdogan has a tough policy not to follow the US and EU, he often makes it difficult for the US and EU in many foreign policies.
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Otzi Iceman guy who lived more than 5000 years ago also suffered from obesity and diabetes like modern people today
W.Minh Tuan We all probably know the famous Otzi Iceman, who lived more than 5000 years ago, whose frozen body was discovered in the Northern Italian Alps on September 19, 1991, in the Otzi region, near the city of Bolzano, Tyrol province, bordering Austria, discovered by two German climbers. Scientists use the name Otzi region…