Many Taiwanese, though, have a negative impression of communist countries--to them Vietnam is poor and backward. But Tran's husband is well versed in the history of the Vietnam War, and has long admired the resilience and fierce opposition the Vietnamese put up in the war.
許多台灣人對共產國家印象不好，眼中的越南儘是貧窮落後，先生卻對越戰歷史如數家珍，對越南人長期在戰爭中力抗列強的韌性讚賞不已。