Why doesn't Vietnam get more attention and flak from the West about it's Human rights abuses ?

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The Vietnamese-American population tends to be staunchly anti-Communist, and has traditionally been opposed to the US opening friendly relations with the Vietnamese government. However, US-Vietnam relations still thrive, and the Vietnamese-American population isn't quite so strategically concentrated in an electoral-rich battleground state (unlike like the Cuban-Americans in Florida), so they don't have that much influence on US foreign policy. That probably helps US-Vietnam relations, but of course there are other reasons. Vietnam isn't a democracy, but it tends to receive higher human rights and freedom ratings (form such organizations as Freedom House) than the other four officially Marxist states. Not only is Vietnam rated far, far better on freedom than North Korea (duh, obviously a super-low bar), but it's also considerably higher than China, plus somewhat better than Cuba and Laos.

Of course the the fact that Vietnam is very useful to the US as far as containing China is concerned is something that matters more than a little bit. I support increasing arms sales to Vietnam and other anti-China allies; the world doesn't need China to get any more powerful. It's time to arm Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, etc. until China is intimidated from messing with these nations, as China will realize that they're horrifyingly painful, prickly porcupines that will shred any invaders.