2025-06-19
41 分钟When Dominic Scriven first visited Vietnam in 1990,
The country was going through a period of profound change.
A time of great tumult.
The Soviet Union, which was the only really long-term ally of Vietnam,
had begun to dismember itself.
And there was extreme volatility in political thinking, but also in economic relationships.
For decades, Vietnam had relied on economic and military assistance from the Soviet Union.
When that dramatically reduced in the mid-1980s, an isolated Vietnam,
economically broken after a failed decade of collectivization, had to find a new way.
That new path was called doi moi, or restoration.
It opened up domestic markets and encouraged foreign investment,
a massive break from the past for a ruling communist party
usually fixated on stability and control.
Let us just imagine you've been following a particular system.
for 40 years, 41 years,
and then suddenly everybody is encouraged to change their views completely.
That's a very discomforting time.
Dominic set up Dragon Capital in Vietnam in 1994.
It's now the biggest private capital firm in the country.
We've sort of been there ever since, you know, going up and down with Vietnam,