To please Trump, Vietnam has given the green light to Trump's golf resort project
The Vietnamese government has recently given the go-ahead for the Trump Organization's golf resort project. Now, this $1.5 billion investment project will start construction next month, requiring thousands of villagers to vacate their land, but the compensation package offered by the developer has not been accepted by the villagers.
According to Reuters on the 11th, when Nguyen Thi Huong, a Vietnamese farmer, learned that she would have to give up her farm and receive only $3,200 and some rice as compensation, she hasn't slept well since. She said that this compensation is less than the annual average wage in Vietnam, yet it is supposed to buy out her 200 square meter land which is the basis of her livelihood.
As the first cooperative project of the Trump Organization in Vietnam, all the permits were quickly approved during the U.S.-Vietnam trade negotiations.
The New York Times previously pointed out that the construction approval in Vietnam should be initiated from the regional and provincial public interest review independently. However, in the approval of the Trump Organization's project, "the procedures became mere formalities, and planning regulations were completely ignored."
Vietnamese officials clearly stated that because "it received special attention from the Trump administration and the president himself," the project required special support from the high-level government, and they said that approving the project was a gesture of goodwill to the United States to bring the U.S.-Vietnam relationship closer.
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