Russia may lose the position in the market of Vietnam arms due to increased presence of weapons lobby in the US in the country. Washington shows tough competition to Russian military technology, while strengthening its own position by any means, until the introduction of sanctions against Hanoi for the continuation of military-technical cooperation with Moscow, said the director of the Institute of Ho Chi Minh Vladimir Kolotov.
he noted, that at the present time, the United States imposed sanctions against any country, that support military-technical cooperation with Moscow, making a temporary exception for India, Indonesia and Vietnam. But at any time, Only when they want, Washington may decide to cancel the exceptions and then buy weapons Vietnam also fall under US sanctions. Although Russia has maintained its position in the Vietnamese market of arms, its US operations are more and more pushed Russian technologies to the market.
Generally, at the request of the expert, trade between the US and Vietnam ten times more than the Russian-Vietnamese in Vietnam and therefore are forced to listen to the, that the Council in Washington.
Russia plays the United States in the country in almost all positions, except for energy cooperation, oil and gas sector and as military-technical cooperation. Wherein, declares Kolotov, this is not the merit of Russian firms. Russian companies have never competed for access to the Vietnamese market, and got their positions on it inherited from the Soviet Union, and therefore lose.
