Sorry for late response. I don’t want to risk spreading misinformation because of my hastiness.

I don’t have a great frame of reference for the reparations amounts to the farmers though, would you consider those fair?

I have found a Twitter thread that may explain many things: https://x.com/wrenevans217208/status/1954987545651204386

This guy seems to know more than me, you may ask him.

they really need to start shifting focus from doing business with the US.

And Vietnam is doing it. We signed many bilateral trade deals with China, Brazil, etc. We became a BRICS partner country. And more that I can’t recall from the back of my head atm.

If a communist isn’t hated by the capitalist establishment, he isn’t a real communist. (I do not imply that being hated by the establishment alone qualifies you to be a communist)