Vietnam

US-born journalist and correspondent for Bloomberg BNA, Lien Hoang reports from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, pop. 90,730,000 (est. 2014)... a Chinese-language cartoon is offending Vietnamese because it depicts them as monkeys; this is also in relation to an ongoing dispute with China about islands in the South China Sea; which also links to why Viet Nam is talking to the US about buying military equipment; Cambodia also isn't happy with Viet Nam about new military posts on their border.