HO CHI MINH CITY/NEW YORK -- As Vietnam enjoys an export boom due to more and more companies leaving China, Hanoi can in part thank a helping hand from an unlikely place: Washington.
Examples of this are abundant. This year two Vietnamese companies supplied machine parts to a Canadian manufacturer, while a slew of textile companies exported personal protective equipment to the U.S., Spain, Ghana and Japan. What they have in common is that all of the companies received backing -- in one form or another -- from the U.S. government.
