u/Slip_Inner - originally from r/GenZhou
China, Vietnam, and Laos undertook reforms and allowed markets with state supervision. Much more palatable to western capital than a centrally planned and publicly owned economy

u/JohannesAdams1212 - originally from r/GenZhou
Capitalists only want profit, and since they control the government of the West, it’s very profitable for them to not sanction China nor Viet Nam so they could tap into the labour forces of these countries and use them for outsourcing labour.

Cuba and DPRK on the other hand are not as profitable since they do not really allow private enterprises in their country as much as the latter 2.

For Laos though, I think the West just doesn’t know it exists and if it’s relevant or not. I think we’re just waiting for Laotian Socialism to become even more successful and Western media would create a thing called the “Hmong Genocide” or smth.

u/darkcalling - originally from r/GenZhou
The west waged a war it lost against one and still controls the puppet in the south and must prevent reunification under socialism. The other it tried to subvert using biological warfare, assassination attempts on Castro, the bay of pigs invasion failure. Castro fooled them at the start into supporting him and this is socialism right under the US’s own nose, 90 miles from Florida, a tiny island they haven’t broken in more than half a century.

The others it exploited for cheap labor and are far removed.

u/Psychological_Log749 - originally from r/GenZhou
Because there is money to be made in China, Vietnam and Laos, whereas Cuba and especially DPRK are much less tolerant of foreign investement into their economies. DPRK and Cuba serve as an ‘example’ of how terrible socialism supposedly is so they need to do their absolute best to make sure these countries do not succeed.

u/fairycanary - originally from r/GenZhou
They thought with market reforms they could turn China into the fall of the USSR, it failed. They thought they could turn Vietnam Capitalist and at least turn against China, but that failed.

Trump wanted to open NK, but the Dems didn’t because they know NK will never go Capitalist, but without the brutal sanctions they be even more prosperous than SK, and that’s really risky.

They also need to ensure Cuba stays poor so Latin America doesn’t get any ideas.

It’s all very strategic.

u/piscator111 - originally from r/GenZhou
Because Cuba is right next to America, so they get the fuck you in particular treatment, the US won’t stop till they make Cuba a defacto colony.

DPRK because they’ve got nukes.

u/Lilyo - originally from r/GenZhou
China is sanctioned in different ways, for example recently all products manufactured in Xinjiang have been banned for import. Theres also sanctions against individuals and military, as well as other things to economically impact China, like banning US citizens from investing in Chinese companies. US wont sanction Vietnam because they know they have to play nice with them to counter China, same with Laos. If they sanction them they will move closer to China.

u/oxamide96 - originally from r/GenZhou
China is sanctioned now, actually. The reason why it is less is because the US got close to China to counter the USSR. But the USSR is no more and now China is the threat. I don’t know enough about Laos, but Vietnam has made minor concessions to Western capital like China did before, and the US now tries to get close to Vietnam to counter China.

u/dornish1919 - originally from r/GenZhou
I just want to clarify that politically and economically, while their foundations are ML, they have all evolved quite differently. Vietnam and PRC, for example, are quite different.