Without immediate and decisive government actions in this sector, including shutdown and privatization, Ari Kokko predicted grave consequences for the whole economy were imminent. The import substitution tendency in the government's economic policies, according to Kokko, was becoming a barrier to the country's long-term development. Kokko's observations were echoed by the criticism from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund of the government's refusal to reform the SOE sector. The World Bank, in May, opposed Hanoi's plan to issue bonds and warned that it would condition future structural adjustment loans on real changes in the state-owned companies. Bombs only scare the weak-hearted At least for now, neither the Kokko report, the World Bank, the IMF, nor the promise to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the desire to join the World Trade Organization can make the Party and government move.
Political safety takes priority above all else.
It predicted all capitalist countries would eventually drown in chaos due to their plaguing social problems. Van Kiet now lends his support to projects similar to those of China's Great Leap Forward era. The grand showcase of the socialist spirit includes construction of the North-South highway, which would require 100,000 mandatory laborers per day, working mainly with their hands and shovels under the control of soldiers. They look for ways to use the economic activities to sabotage our country at all times.