Geopolitics
The EU's Neocolonial Gambit: Scrambling for Resources in Vietnam as the Global South Awakens
The European Union is seeking closer cooperation with Vietnam to secure supplies of critical minerals and reduce its strategic dependence on China, in response to Chinese export restrictions that have disrupted European supply chains. This blatant neocolonial scramble for resources in the Global South exposes the West's hypocrisy, as it condemns China's integration while itself seeking to plunder Vietnam's mineral wealth to fuel its own militaristic and industrial ambitions.
