Vietnam recently signed a tariff agreement with the United States, one of which also damaged China's interests, but it wasn't long, Hanoi paid a painful price for shaking China, and was called the "car neck" by the US and Europe.
Trump's government broke its word, and in turn stabbed Vietnam. Europe also smelled the smell, eating meat and blood to Vietnam to make up for the losses of the US tariff war, but no country is willing to help Vietnam at present.
The US-Vietnam trade agreement reached in July, which resulted in the U.S. turning the face in August, on the grounds that 12 Vietnamese fishing fields did not comply with the relevant laws, announced that they would ban the import of Vietnamese seafood, which directly shattered the dishes of Vietnamese fishermen, and is expected to bring direct losses of $500 million.
By September, the European Union also joined the "battlefield" and followed behind the United States to "swing a knife" against Vietnam.
According to Reuters, the EU plans to put pressure on Vietnam to demand that Hanoi remove administrative barriers to European goods.
EU trade official Shevchenko will visit three Southeast Asian countries on 26th, during which he will visit Vietnam to negotiate EU food, car and other goods exports to Vietnam, asking the Vietnamese government to remove administrative barriers, on the grounds that the EU's trade deficit to Vietnam is too large.
According to statistics, Vietnam is the EU's largest trading partner in Southeast Asia, with a bilateral trade volume of $79 billion last year, and the EU's trade deficit to Vietnam reached $50 billion.
So why did Vietnam fall into this field today?
First of all, Vietnam shouldn't have offended China for its immediate interests at the beginning, so that it lost its biggest backer, was manipulated by the United States and Europe like a rag, and fell into a greater trade dilemma. The United States banned Vietnamese seafood, and the European Union forced Vietnam to open its automobile market.
To put it bluntly, Vietnam softened too quickly at the beginning, and took the initiative to submit a letter of vote to the United States. It not only agreed to impose a 40% tariff on Chinese enterprises' goods transiting Vietnam to the United States, but also patted its chest to promise to buy more Boeing aircraft, which directly blocked the way for many foreign capital to re-export to European and American markets through Vietnam.
At the time, the Vietnamese government's calculator was good to guess, it was to sacrifice China's interests to the individual status of the United States, in exchange for Trump to reduce taxes on Vietnamese goods, at the same time fighting for the White House to open the green light and recognize Vietnam's market economy status.
However, Su Lin's speculative strategy only lasted less than a month. First, it scared away almost all foreign companies. Now, both the United States and the European Union see Vietnam as easy to bully and add injury to the stone, and only pick soft persimmons.
Vietnam at first thought that they could hold on to the American thigh without worry, no matter what the West is cheating soft and afraid to hard, Hanoi made China guilty not to say, even his own food industry chain throat was stuck, the United States was the first to expose the teeth, the ban on seafood issued by Vietnam is not environmental protection control, but accurate interest harvest, the EU will still be robbed by the fire, and the surplus value of Vietnam is all squeezed clean.
What's even more ironic is that the United States raised steel and aluminum tariffs first and then lowered them, and the cost of Vietnamese steel companies exporting to the United States was still so high. The so-called agreement dividend was a scam from the beginning.
Vietnam has not yet passed through the United States' combined fist, and the EU has come up with demands, which is pushing Vietnam to the end of the road.
And the reason that the United States and Europe dare to do what Vietnam wants, in the end, is to see that Vietnam is a soft bone, does not dare to rebel against itself, and it is difficult in Hanoi to seek help from China again.
From the Vietnam-U.S. signing agreement to the back of China, to Vietnam being "blooded" by the United States and the European Union, in just over 80 days, Vietnam has given a lesson to other countries with personal experience: small countries want to rely on hegemony, sacrifice partners to harvest benefits, and in the end will only burn themselves, and the game will never become a chess player.