Tống Minh Tuấn
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Vừa qua, chúng ta được chứng kiến sự kiện Trung Quốc vừa vô cớ bắn chết 9 ngư dân của Việt nam. Không thấy các phương tiện báo đài đưa tin như thường thấy về khủng bố, nhưng đây là một sự việc không hề nhỏ. Đó không chỉ là vấn đề hinh sinh 9 sinh mạng, luật phát quốc tế.. mà nó sẽ là vấn đề rất đáng để thanh niên Việt nam suy nghĩ. Chúng ta không thể thờ ơ khi chính niềm tự hào về chủ quyền non sông lãnh thổ của chúng ta luôn bị đe dọa và xâm phạm trắng trợn.
Có những người đã từng đưa tôi những văn bản kí kết của VN với Trung Quốc ngày xưa, trong đó có công nhận chủ quyền về Hải lý của Trung quốc, có thể những người dân đánh cá kia đã thực sự xâm phạm. Nhưng bắt người vi phạm là một chuyện, bắn chết người lại là chuyện khác. Và tôi muốn nói lại một lần nữa rằng đây là vấn đề thực sự nghiêm trọng.
Hôm qua, một anh bạn đã gửi tới cho tôi một bức thư, trong đó anh đang kêu gọi mọi người kí tên gửi đến đại sư quán Trung quốc để phản đối. Đọc xong the letter này, tôi thực sự muốn gửi nó đến các bạn
I was having a shower few minutes ago and all the time under the running water, I kept thinking about the shooting incident and about Vietnam and China.
My feeling is very mixed! Having worked on China for a few months, having seen them develop and experiencing their tactics everywhere, good or bad, I can't help but worry for Vietnam's future.
They have good leadership, clear strategies and vision and even brutal tactics. Every Chinese is hot-blooded with a strong sense of nationalism and a thirst for getting rich everywhere.
Where the hell are we now? Poor me, I can't help feeling pity for my own motherland. Call me sentimental!
So far, as an economist, I don't see any damned good economic strategy that can well position Vietnam into the next 20 years and without fearing of the giant "friend"
We have been so complacent about a mere 6-7% GDP growth rate while the Chinese is trying to slow down their economy of 10-12% growth rate.
We are happy because we are the number one/two/three RICE exporters in the world while the Chinese are buying IBM, sending people to outer spaces.
We've been accumulating debts and will soon end the grace periods and start paying our debt service. But Alas, I doubt about the productivity of the projects from these debts. At the same time, multilateral donors like WB, ADB are begging the Chinese to borrow their money.
Our income difference between the rich and the poor is widening so fast. I am afraid of seeing another Latin-America or Philippine. Our health care system is in terrible shape. We are cheated by our own doctors into paying multiple prices for their services.
Our private sector, although developing fast, suffers from unfair competition from public sector. The income tax rate in Vietnam is prohibitively high and is a strong incentive for tax evasion, corruption and ambiguous connection btw public and private companies.
At the same time, the Chinese private sector is flourishing. The richest man in China with assets worth over 1 USD billions is the owner of an online game company listed at NYSE. He is just slightly over 30 years old.
We are wasting millions of dollars on corrupted oil/gas exploration projects while the Chinese start acquiring overseas oil reserves.
We built a lousy and dilapidated My Dinh Sport Stadium with hundreds of billions VND wasted while the Chinese is busy preparing for 2008 International Olympic.
Our corruption index is one of the worst indexes internationally. However, we, with our whimsical attitudes, can send people to jail for criticizing corrupted activities while the Chinese government spares no bullets showering on corrupted top officials.
Last month, we almost closed Vnexpress and sternly reprimanded Mr. Truong Dinh Anh for his brazenness in questioning the purchases of the Mercedes. Last week, we arrested Ms. Lan Anh of Tuoi Tre for her covering of the medicine supply scandal. Few days ago, we shut down Tintucvietnam, for whatever reasons I can't comprehend.
Our education system is in a huge mess while China starts receiving international students from all over the world and building first class institutions like Tsinghua, Peking, Wudan, and Shanghai universities.
With so many PhDs, Master's, professors, Doctor of Science at the damn Ministry of Education, we can't fix even a primary education system. Our teachers are beating up our kids without remorse. And worse, the kids do not know that they have the rights not be beaten.
Our talented students are paid a meager $700-800/month in the US with the so-called "National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study". Worse, they don't even get paid on time. This stipend is even approximate the minimum allowance that a homeless in the US can have.
Our Ministry of Education and all the ridiculous things about Vietnamese education system make it so hard for Vietnamese students to go overseas and study at advanced education systems like the US.
At the same time, the Chinese students and professors are populating every corner of US top schools and sending back all kinds of advanced knowledge from biochemistry, biotechnology, to nuclear information.
Why do we have to make it so hard for our own fellows to learn overseas? Just getting a nicely formatted transcript is so hard. Until now, I still see awkwardly translated transcripts using a type writer. I still see students imploring teachers to get a second copy of the academic transcript.
Our professors at universities rarely give students a good score 9 or 10/10 because they have the stupid attitudes that 9 or 10 is not for students. That gives our Vietnamese students a huge disadvantage when applying to US school. At the same time, the Chinese has numerous centers that help students preparing for overseas study and polish their application forms.
Our human resource development strategy is almost non-existent.
There have been few times when we talk about using the talented people. But Atlas, they are just lip service. Where the hell is the transparency in promoting talented people? Seniority and diplomacy still outweigh intelligence and good working ethic.
I have a friend who graduated with a PhD in Economics overseas. He is over 30 with great experience. He is fully qualified for a senior position (General Director - Vu Pho/Vu Truong). He passed everything and failed to get the position just because he is still "YOUNG" and should wait for a while.
And at the same time, the Chinese is recruiting experts and overseas Chinese to become managers, CEO at top companies.
And now, what are we doing? Seeing our own people being slaughtered at our own sea, we can't say a single organized word. Remember the time when the US bombed the Chinese embassy few years ago, there was a wave of protest from Chinese all over the world. I can't help but thinking if we do anything like that now, whether we could in trouble by our own people first because we may damage the "friendship" with our "friend".
We had been under the Chinese colony for thousands of years. For those suffering years, we were enslaved spiritually, physically and economically.
If we don't have clear visions and strategies for Vietnamese economic development, build up our human resource, fix up the education system, stop corruptions, and open ourselves to learn advanced knowledge, I fear that the haunted past of Vietnam will come back!
My 2 cents only.
Nguyen Quoc Toan.
Có những người đã từng đưa tôi những văn bản kí kết của VN với Trung Quốc ngày xưa, trong đó có công nhận chủ quyền về Hải lý của Trung quốc, có thể những người dân đánh cá kia đã thực sự xâm phạm. Nhưng bắt người vi phạm là một chuyện, bắn chết người lại là chuyện khác. Và tôi muốn nói lại một lần nữa rằng đây là vấn đề thực sự nghiêm trọng.
Hôm qua, một anh bạn đã gửi tới cho tôi một bức thư, trong đó anh đang kêu gọi mọi người kí tên gửi đến đại sư quán Trung quốc để phản đối. Đọc xong the letter này, tôi thực sự muốn gửi nó đến các bạn
I was having a shower few minutes ago and all the time under the running water, I kept thinking about the shooting incident and about Vietnam and China.
My feeling is very mixed! Having worked on China for a few months, having seen them develop and experiencing their tactics everywhere, good or bad, I can't help but worry for Vietnam's future.
They have good leadership, clear strategies and vision and even brutal tactics. Every Chinese is hot-blooded with a strong sense of nationalism and a thirst for getting rich everywhere.
Where the hell are we now? Poor me, I can't help feeling pity for my own motherland. Call me sentimental!
So far, as an economist, I don't see any damned good economic strategy that can well position Vietnam into the next 20 years and without fearing of the giant "friend"
We have been so complacent about a mere 6-7% GDP growth rate while the Chinese is trying to slow down their economy of 10-12% growth rate.
We are happy because we are the number one/two/three RICE exporters in the world while the Chinese are buying IBM, sending people to outer spaces.
We've been accumulating debts and will soon end the grace periods and start paying our debt service. But Alas, I doubt about the productivity of the projects from these debts. At the same time, multilateral donors like WB, ADB are begging the Chinese to borrow their money.
Our income difference between the rich and the poor is widening so fast. I am afraid of seeing another Latin-America or Philippine. Our health care system is in terrible shape. We are cheated by our own doctors into paying multiple prices for their services.
Our private sector, although developing fast, suffers from unfair competition from public sector. The income tax rate in Vietnam is prohibitively high and is a strong incentive for tax evasion, corruption and ambiguous connection btw public and private companies.
At the same time, the Chinese private sector is flourishing. The richest man in China with assets worth over 1 USD billions is the owner of an online game company listed at NYSE. He is just slightly over 30 years old.
We are wasting millions of dollars on corrupted oil/gas exploration projects while the Chinese start acquiring overseas oil reserves.
We built a lousy and dilapidated My Dinh Sport Stadium with hundreds of billions VND wasted while the Chinese is busy preparing for 2008 International Olympic.
Our corruption index is one of the worst indexes internationally. However, we, with our whimsical attitudes, can send people to jail for criticizing corrupted activities while the Chinese government spares no bullets showering on corrupted top officials.
Last month, we almost closed Vnexpress and sternly reprimanded Mr. Truong Dinh Anh for his brazenness in questioning the purchases of the Mercedes. Last week, we arrested Ms. Lan Anh of Tuoi Tre for her covering of the medicine supply scandal. Few days ago, we shut down Tintucvietnam, for whatever reasons I can't comprehend.
Our education system is in a huge mess while China starts receiving international students from all over the world and building first class institutions like Tsinghua, Peking, Wudan, and Shanghai universities.
With so many PhDs, Master's, professors, Doctor of Science at the damn Ministry of Education, we can't fix even a primary education system. Our teachers are beating up our kids without remorse. And worse, the kids do not know that they have the rights not be beaten.
Our talented students are paid a meager $700-800/month in the US with the so-called "National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study". Worse, they don't even get paid on time. This stipend is even approximate the minimum allowance that a homeless in the US can have.
Our Ministry of Education and all the ridiculous things about Vietnamese education system make it so hard for Vietnamese students to go overseas and study at advanced education systems like the US.
At the same time, the Chinese students and professors are populating every corner of US top schools and sending back all kinds of advanced knowledge from biochemistry, biotechnology, to nuclear information.
Why do we have to make it so hard for our own fellows to learn overseas? Just getting a nicely formatted transcript is so hard. Until now, I still see awkwardly translated transcripts using a type writer. I still see students imploring teachers to get a second copy of the academic transcript.
Our professors at universities rarely give students a good score 9 or 10/10 because they have the stupid attitudes that 9 or 10 is not for students. That gives our Vietnamese students a huge disadvantage when applying to US school. At the same time, the Chinese has numerous centers that help students preparing for overseas study and polish their application forms.
Our human resource development strategy is almost non-existent.
There have been few times when we talk about using the talented people. But Atlas, they are just lip service. Where the hell is the transparency in promoting talented people? Seniority and diplomacy still outweigh intelligence and good working ethic.
I have a friend who graduated with a PhD in Economics overseas. He is over 30 with great experience. He is fully qualified for a senior position (General Director - Vu Pho/Vu Truong). He passed everything and failed to get the position just because he is still "YOUNG" and should wait for a while.
And at the same time, the Chinese is recruiting experts and overseas Chinese to become managers, CEO at top companies.
And now, what are we doing? Seeing our own people being slaughtered at our own sea, we can't say a single organized word. Remember the time when the US bombed the Chinese embassy few years ago, there was a wave of protest from Chinese all over the world. I can't help but thinking if we do anything like that now, whether we could in trouble by our own people first because we may damage the "friendship" with our "friend".
We had been under the Chinese colony for thousands of years. For those suffering years, we were enslaved spiritually, physically and economically.
If we don't have clear visions and strategies for Vietnamese economic development, build up our human resource, fix up the education system, stop corruptions, and open ourselves to learn advanced knowledge, I fear that the haunted past of Vietnam will come back!
My 2 cents only.
Nguyen Quoc Toan.
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