For those who continue to maintain that the Nth of Vietnam has...

For those who continue to maintain that the Nth of Vietnam has always had a happy relationship with China and the South of Vietnam is where all the problems emanate ... its worth reading the AFR article from the weekend.

http://www.afr.com/Page/Uuid/d7e46298-da56-11e3-8f20-519b40659d2d

"investors’ money is subject to the whims of two governments with a tense bilateral relationship which suffered one of its worst breakdowns this week since the two countries fought a short but brutal border war in 1979. During that fighting, Lao Cai was destroyed and after the war the border was closed for more than a decade, reopening only in 1991."

I, for one, did not relaise Lao Cai was razed in the 1979 conflict.