The development of the "comprehensive strategic partnership" between the United States and Vietnam is mainly driven by the demand for economic cooperation between the two countries, while the economic cooperation between the two countries also contains a great conflict that limits the development of political cooperation between the two countries. The economic factors driving the development of cooperation between the United States and Vietnam mainly include short-term cooperation factors caused by domestic economic problems of the two countries, long-term cooperation trends determined by the long-term development needs of the two economies, and the promotion factors of China-Vietnam trade to US-Vietnam trade. On the other hand, the transfer of economic costs from the United States to Vietnam has caused a conflict between the two countries. Vietnam, on the other hand, countered the economic cost transfer of the United States by exercising national economic sovereignty. In order to smoothly promote the transfer of economic costs, the United States needs to carry out political cost transfer activities such as "peaceful evolution" and violent subversion against Vietnam to obviate its national sovereignty. This conflict poses a direct threat to Vietnam's social stability, national sovereignty, and the Vietnamese Communist`s political power, fundamentally limiting the development of political cooperation between the United States and Vietnam.

Keywords: United States, Vietnam China, Cost Transferring Theory, Economics

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