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Viewing cable 08HANOI1056, SBU) Deputy Secretary Negroponte's Dinner with Vietnamese

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08HANOI1056 2008-09-15 08:47 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Hanoi
VZCZCXRO2711
OO RUEHCHI RUEHCN RUEHDT RUEHHM
DE RUEHHI #1056/01 2590847
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 150847Z SEP 08
FM AMEMBASSY HANOI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8452
INFO RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH IMMEDIATE 5108
RUEHZS/ASEAN COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HANOI 001056 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OVIP NEGROPONTE JOHN PREL PGOV PHUM OPRC ECON ETRD
EAGR, SCUL, SENV, VM 
 
SUBJECT: (SBU) Deputy Secretary Negroponte's Dinner with Vietnamese 
Civil Society leaders. 
 
HANOI 00001056  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. FOR INTERNAL USG USE.  NOT SUITABLE FOR 
INTERNET POSTING. 
 
1.  (U) September 11, 2008; 19:00 p.m.; Hanoi, Vietnam. 
 
2.  (SBU) Participants: 
 
U.S. 
The Deputy Secretary 
Amb. Michael Michalak 
Amb. Scot Marciel, EAP DAS 
DCM Virginia Palmer 
D Special Assistant Kaye Lee 
D Special Assistant Ted Wittenstein 
Press Officer Angela Aggeler (Embassy Notetaker) 
 
VIETNAM: 
Benjamin Wilkinson, Fulbright Economic Teaching Program 
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, VietnamNet founder 
Dr. Hoang Ngoc Giao, Vietnam National University School 
 of Law 
Mr. Huy Duc, Blogger and Editor Saigon Marketing 
Dr. Do Duc Dinh, President, Economic & Social Research 
  Foundation 
Dr. Le Danh Doanh, Senior Economist 
 
3.  (SBU) SUMMARY.  The Deputy Secretary led a lively and unusually 
frank discussion with civil society leaders from around Vietnam 
during dinner at Ambassador Michalak's residence on September 11. 
The group, including a renowned economist, a legal reformer, two 
respected journalists and academic experts, covered the waterfront 
on Vietnam's rapidly evolving socio-economic environment and the 
challenges it faces.  The group discussed tensions with China, 
environmental concerns, media freedom focusing on the internet, and 
the economy as areas that need particular and immediate attention. 
The Deputy Secretary's experiences as a young officer in Saigon in 
the 1960s, his work on the Paris Peace Talks and continuing 
engagement on Vietnam issues framed the evening, and the openness of 
the guests highlighted the gap between those committed to bringing 
about crucial reforms in Vietnam in areas like climate change, 
investment and education and the hardliners in the Communist Party 
clinging to the status quo. END SUMMARY. 
 
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CHINA TOPS THE MENU 
------------------- 
 
4.(SBU) The first issue the Deputy Secretary's Vietnamese 
interlocutors wanted to raise was China.   They called the 
appearance on a number of Chinese blogs of a 31-day plan to invade 
Vietnam, "psychological warfare," but, the journalists noted, most 
Vietnamese believe these Chinese sites were acting with the approval 
of the government in Beijing.  The ongoing neuralgia over the 
Spratly and Paracel Islands is another source of enmity towards 
China and one guest noted that while relations with China are 
officially good, that "informally, and under the surface, they are 
bad."  Another asked what President Bush had meant in his joint 
statement with Prime Minister Khiem on Vietnam's "territorial 
integrity" and if that was a direct reference to the dispute in the 
South China Sea.  DAS Marciel pointed out that the East Sea dispute 
(as it is termed by the Vietnamese) is an ideal subject for ASEAN, 
though with several members also claiming portions of the area, it 
was an unquestionably complicated one. 
 
--------------------------------------------- ---------- 
ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMY, AND EDUCATION - ISSUES OF URGENCY 
--------------------------------------------- ---------- 
 
5. (SBU) Vietnam has ignored the environment, observed one guest, 
and will suffer in all sectors unless it takes immediate action. 
From major urban areas simply burying solid waste in the 
countryside, to industrial run-off and resulting dead rivers, 
neither the government nor the private sector has paid attention to 
the consequences of rapid growth and development on the environment. 
The costs of implementing protective measures that would allow 
foreign, particularly U.S. companies, to meet their environmental 
standards, may slow investment.  But such as pollutants coming 
downstream from Burma and Laos, the damning of upstream water 
sources, or the rising sea levels in the Mekong Delta also pose a 
threat.  The Ambassador noted that the Mekong Delta is very similar 
to the Mississippi Delta and that a group from the U.S. will be 
coming in the next few months to work with experts at the University 
of Can Tho to assist the Government of Vietnam in addressing the 
threat of rising sea levels. 
 
6. (SBU).  The Deputy Secretary asked the group if Vietnam could 
 
HANOI 00001056  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
survive a free trade agreement and all heartily agreed that, while 
such an agreement would be difficult to achieve, it would have an 
extremely positive long-term effect.   Currently, one expert 
observed, a small and under-funded private sector creates most of 
the jobs while the State-owned sector absorbs over 50% of funding 
while producing few jobs or exports.  The agricultural sector is an 
area in which expanded commercialization has reaped great rewards, 
noted another.  Vietnam is now the largest exporter of pepper and 
cashews in the world, and second largest exporter of coffee. 
 
7. (SBU) Some problems that Vietnam faces, including several 
economic ones, can be solved with the stroke of the pen, said one 
academic.  Education is not one of those.  The GVN is clearly 
committed to growing its economy, but is it equally committed to 
taking the steps necessary to fixing its dysfunctional education 
system, creating the conditions necessary to keep students returning 
from overseas study in academia and ensuring graduates have skills 
needed in the economy?  The group welcomed the Ambassador's 
initiatives on education, including creation of the bilateral task 
force. The Deputy Secretary emphasized that U.S. participants came 
not only from the government, but from academia and business, and 
that such a combination was necessary to creating a workable road 
map for enhanced education cooperation, increased academic 
exchanges, and possible creation of an international standard 
American model university in Vietnam.  It all boils down to 
governance, observed one academic, and whether American partners 
would be allowed a merit-based system with autonomy and 
accountability.  The Ambassador reiterated that all these issues 
would be addressed by the task force when it met in two weeks. 
 
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CHALLENGES OF RESTRICTING THE INTERNET 
--------------------------------------- 
 
8. (SBU) The Ambassador asked the journalists about a draft order 
being reviewed at the Ministry of Information and Technology that 
will seek to place restrictions on the internet and which 
particularly targets blogs.  One journalist said that any new 
directives would not change the current situation in any way, 
because the GVN can only be reactive in its efforts against internet 
content of it disapproves of.  "The only way the Communist Party can 
control the internet," this former Party official observed, "is to 
eliminate it from Vietnam.          The Party lost its monopoly on 
information with the introduction of the internet and it is far too 
late to turn back now."  Too many Vietnamese rely on it every day, 
observed another, including the Government. 
 
Michalak 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CLASSIFICATION 4 
 
 
 
          CLASSIFICATION 
 
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