Hello promaster, you are correct in saying that the textile industry in Vietnam is large and profitable and I am sure the government here would like to think long and hard about upsetting that applecart. However with KBLB we are not talking about disrupting the textile industry in Vietnam. We are talking about disrupting the SILK industry at this point in time, an industry that has had it's troubles in the recent past and has barely been edging it's way towards profitability. I see a big difference between one and the other.
To start off with the only industries I see Kraig 'disrupting' in Vietnam are obviously the silk industry; could this truly be seen as a bad thing? To have Vietnam catapulted to being the country that produces the best silk in the world in one fell swoop. I also see them disrupting the technical textile industry worldwide but fortunately this market does not even seem to exist in VIetnam so there should be no apprehension there.
I don't think it is hubris or arrogance to believe that introducing KBLB's silk would be an automatic positive step for Vietnam, it is a shoe-in, educated confidence I would say.
I don't have a come-back for the Vietnamese believing that it could be an environmental threat, they could well believe it is but with a small amount of DD (or a minimal amount of knowledge of the domesticated silkworm) anybody would see that the point is moot.
GLTY