Are you aware that vietnam is called the "Tiny Dragon of Asia"... please give me a precise reason for this.

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African Farmer

The dragon has nothing to do with the physical shape of VN.

The term Four Asian Tigers or East Asian Tigers refers to the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. They are also known as Asia's Four Little Dragons. These countries and territories were noted for maintaining high growth rates and rapid industrialization between the early 1960s and 1990s. In the early 21st century, with the original four Tigers at or near to fully developed status, attention has increasingly shifted to other Asian economies which are experiencing rapid economic transformation at the present time.

VN is one of the SE Asian countries now following the path of the four original tigers / dragons.

Where have you been the last 30 years?
The last US soldiers were evacuated from Saigon April 30, 1975. Since then, the (in historical terms relatively temporary) separation of Viet Nam into two countries ended.

That there were two VN's was a result of the "messy vacuum" in the European colonies following the end of the Second World War.

The U.S. backed-French and Vietnamese loyalists eventually suffered a major strategic defeat at the Siege of Dien Bien Phu that allowed Ho Chi Minh to negotiate the ceasefire with a favorable position in the ongoing Geneva conference of 1954.

Colonial administration ended as French Indochina was dissolved, and the contested State of Vietnam ceased to exist. According to the Geneva Agreements the country was divided at the 17th parallel into Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnam and Ngo Dinh Diem's South Vietnam in the model of Korea after the end of the Korean war some years earlier.

MojaveDan

Alright Ong Jon. I'll answer the question. :-P

I really like African Farmer's answer. His explanation seems very logical, but I have never heard of Vietnam being referred to as "Tiny Dragon". I'm not saying that he's wrong, but Iâ€™ve never heard of that reference before. I have heard Vietnam being referred as a dragon and that is because of its shape.

Depending on which way you look at it (and how much you've been drinking), Vietnam could appear to be a dragon or a fish. Personally, I think Vietnam looks like a fish and I've never drunk enough to see it change into anything else.

Vietnam was split (this last time) into North and South Vietnam in accordance to the 1954 Geneva Accords as a temporary separation between the communist North, led by Ho Chi Minh, and the democratic South, initially led by Nguyen Emperor Bao Dai but was soon deposed by Ngo Dinh Diem to became South Vietnamâ€™s first president. The separation was to be dissolved in 1957 after a countrywide election to determine how Vietnam was to be controlled. The election never happened and Vietnam remained separated for twenty years until Saigon fell to the NVA, ending the Vietnam War and reunifying the country (again). This was not the first time Vietnam was split in two (or more) pieces.

Vietnam experienced nearly three hundred years of being divided between the Trinh, Mac, Nguyen and other families. Ironically, the Nguyens controlled everything South of the border between Quang Tri and Quang Binh provinces, which is generally where the DMZ would be hundreds of years later. Nguyen Anh defeated all of feuding Vietnamese factions to create what we know as Vietnam today. However, that didnâ€™t last because Vietnam was split into Cochinchina (southern Vietnam), Annam (central Vietnam) and Tonkin (northern Vietnam) during the French colonial period a few decades later.

Itâ€™s said that Vietnamese are distinctly Vietnamese no matter which way you split them. That must be true, because Vietnamâ€™s society is still one even after so many separations.

ong jon

waite for "mohave dan's" answer.. if he dont know no one does !

yes "dan" i knew that was right up your alley...good job.

Tinamou

BuyUSA uses both the term

Asia's Ascending Dragon
and
The New Tiger

It therefore seems that in financial/business literature, the dragon / tiger "term" is interchangeable and is simply placed on various (East) Asian economies and countries.

If it had to do with the physical shape, how to explain PR China can be a dragon? It is much more likely to have ties to the region's folklore and in particular to the Chinese-influenced countries where the dragon (symbol) is widely used in cultural festivals.

misty

If you are familiar with Vietnam's map, it's shaped like a dragon right under neath China. North and South Vietnam is still the same country. More communists usually came from North, and anti-communists are mostly from the South, where these people get influences from other countries such as the Westerners.

Gerald J

For years, China was referred to as the "Sleeping Dragon," because of it's foreign policy regarding trade and politics, it pretty much stayed in the background and was isolated from the west, much like Vietnam was. As you probably well know, the Sleeping Dragon woke up and has quickly become a major force in the world economically and politically. Although I have never heard of Vietnam referred to as the Tiny Dragon, maybe because of it's change in policies of openess to the west, both politically and especially economically, much like China did, would be in reference to it's size, and policies that mirrored China's, basically a smaller version of China.
I certainly can't explain the North and South part better than Dan did.

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