In mid-2002, the Prime Minister of New Zealand publicly apologized to the ethnic Chinese (Huaqiao) living in this country for the harassment they had suffered over the past hundred years, including a special tax to the New Zealand treasury. This seemingly insignificant fact actually shows how great the influence of Huaqiao (primarily economic) on the economy of various countries is now. If this is felt in New Zealand, it is all the more clear what the impact of ethnic Chinese on the economy of Southeast Asian countries, where there are more than 50 million of them. Currently, the problem of forming a Chinese "common market" is very relevant .1 There is no doubt that China, due to the rapid growth of its economic potential and political weight, is at the stage of becoming a superpower. In an effort to catch up with and overtake the United States in absolute terms of GDP in the shortest possible time, Beijing is now preoccupied with solving major problems that go far beyond regional problems. Due to the intensification of foreign economic expansion, understanding the aspirations of the Chinese in other countries of the region, and especially in neighboring Vietnam, becomes strategic and particularly relevant. It is well known that Chinese immigration has had a great impact on the national composition of many Southeast Asian countries and in almost all countries-on the formation of the national bourgeoisie and the working class. In a number of Southeast Asian countries, the specifics of economic development consisted in the fact that trade and usurious capital was represented mainly by non-indigenous ethnic elements (Chinese, Indians, Arabs) .2 The history of migration of the Chinese population to the territory of modern Vietnam dates back almost two millennia. The first Chinese people began to settle in the country during Vietnam's thousand-year dependence on China (III century BC-VIII century AD). Later, after the Manchu dynasty reigned in China in the middle of the ... Read more