Readout of Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan’s Meeting With Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh

May 23, 2019

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Readout of Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan’s Meeting With Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh


Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan met with Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh at the Pentagon today to reaffirm the comprehensive partnership between the United States and Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “Readout of Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan’s Meeting With Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh”

Mỹ gia tăng thách thức Trung Quốc trên mọi mặt trận

(Dân trí) Mỹ đã đẩy mạnh thách thức Trung Quốc trên mọi mặt trận, từ Biển Đông, Đài Loan đến nhân quyền. Các động thái này diễn ra trong bối cảnh Washington và Bắc Kinh đang trong giai đoạn đàm phán về một thỏa thuận để tìm lối thoát cho chiến tranh thương mại

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tau-1553651334871.jpgTàu khu trục USS Curtis Wilbur, một trong hai tàu chiến Mỹ đi qua eo biển Đài Loan gần đây. (Ảnh: Wikipedia)

Bloomberg nhận định, dù Mỹ và Trung Quốc đang tiến gần hơn tới một thỏa thuận để chấm dứt chiến tranh thương mại, chính quyền Trump đang ngày càng quyết liệt trong việc thách thức các lằn ranh đỏ địa chính trị của Bắc Kinh. Tiếp tục đọc “Mỹ gia tăng thách thức Trung Quốc trên mọi mặt trận”

Sau Google, hàng loạt ‘ông lớn’ công nghệ Mỹ bắt đầu cắt nguồn cung cho Huawei

Thứ Hai, 20/05/2019 12:54 PM GMT+7

(VTC News) – Từ Google đến Qualcomm, Intel,… hàng loạt công ty Mỹ đóng băng nguồn cung cấp các phần mềm và linh kiện thiết yếu cho công ty Trung Quốc Huawei.

Các nhà sản xuất chip bao gồm Intel Corp, Qualcomm Inc., Xilinx Inc. và Broadcom Inc. chỉ thị nhân viên không cung cấp sản phẩm cho Huawei đến khi nhận được thông báo thêm, Bloomberg trích dẫn các nguồn tin cho biết.

Tiếp tục đọc “Sau Google, hàng loạt ‘ông lớn’ công nghệ Mỹ bắt đầu cắt nguồn cung cho Huawei”

The Liberal Embrace of War

American interventionists learned a lesson from Iraq: pre-empt the debate. Now everyone is for regime change

CARACAS — The United States banned all air transport with Venezuela on Wednesday over security concerns, further isolating the troubled South American nation…

A disinterested historian — Herodotus raised from the dead — would see this as just the latest volley in a siege tale. America has been trying for ages to topple the regime of President Nicholas Maduro, after trying for years to do the same to his predecessor, Hugo Chavez. Tiếp tục đọc “The Liberal Embrace of War”

As Trade War Rages, China’s Sway Over the U.S. Fades

Beijing once could count on allies in business and politics to help get its way. Now many of its old allies are staying on the sidelines.

A Chinese automotive assembly line in Beilun in Zhejiang Province, China. China’s economic slowdown, which could hinder growth globally, is a major reason that Beijing’s influence has ebbed.CreditCreditBryan Denton for The New York Times
Keith Bradsher

By Keith Bradsher , New York Times May 17, 2019

China usually gets its way. In Washington, on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms, Beijing has used the country’s size and promise for decades to quell opposition and reward those who helped its rise.

Those days may be coming to an end.

As it struggles with President Trump’s trade war, a maturing and debt-laden China is discovering that it no longer has the same pull. Members of both political parties in the United States favor a tougher stance against Beijing. Some old business allies are standing on the sidelines or even cheering the Trump administration’s strong stands.

Tiếp tục đọc “As Trade War Rages, China’s Sway Over the U.S. Fades”

Trump’s trade war shows how China has lost all its friends in Washington

US claims to have images showing Iranian freighters they believe are carrying missiles

Overcoming War Legacies: The Road to Reconciliation and Future Cooperation Between the United States and Vietnam

Aspen Institute, MARCH 26, 2019  • THE AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM PROGRAM

On March 26th the governments of the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in partnership with the United States Institute of Peace, hosted a landmark event examining the transformation from enemies to partners by the two countries since the end of the war in 1975.

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy- Remarks

Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc- Keynote Speech

Charles Bailey- Panel 2 Healing from the Destruction of War

USIP Event Summary and Speaker Videos

Fifty Years After, A Daunting Cleanup of Vietnam’s Toxic Legacy

A Vietnamese soldier next to a hazardous warning sign for dioxin contamination at Bien Hoa air base last October.A Vietnamese soldier next to a hazardous warning sign for dioxin contamination at Bien Hoa air base last October. KHAM/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of Vietnam with Agent Orange, leaving dioxin contamination that has severely affected the health of three generations of Vietnamese. Now, the U.S. and Vietnamese governments have joined together in a massive cleanup project.

In the thriving industrial city of Bien Hoa, about 20 miles east of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, there is a large air base, just beyond a sweeping bend in the Dong Nai River. During the American war in Vietnam, it was said to be the busiest airport in the world. Since the war ended in 1975, a dense cluster of four residential neighborhoods has grown up around the base. Their total population is perhaps 111,000, while the base itself, now home to advanced long-range fighter-bombers of the Vietnam People’s Air Force, has another 1,200 permanent residents. Tiếp tục đọc “Fifty Years After, A Daunting Cleanup of Vietnam’s Toxic Legacy”

The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War

Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.

On a mild, sunny morning last November, Chuck Searcy and I drove out along a spur of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail to the former Marine base at Khe Sanh, which sits in a bowl of green mountains and coffee plantations in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province, hard on the border with Laos. The seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968, coinciding with the Tet Offensive, was the longest battle of what Vietnamese call the American War and a pivotal event in the conflict. By the off-kilter logic of Saigon and Washington, unleashing enough technology and firepower to produce a ten-to-one kill ratio was a metric of success, but the televised carnage of 1968, in which 16,592 Americans died, was too much for audiences back home. After Tet and Khe Sanh, the war was no longer America’s to win, only to avoid losing. Tiếp tục đọc “The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War”

Các nữ đại sứ thăm đội rà phá toàn nữ của RENEW-NPA – Women Ambassadors Visit RENEW-NPA’s All-Woman Clearance Team

English after Vietnamese

Các nữ đại sứ thăm đội rà phá toàn nữ của RENEW-NPA

Project RENEW

Đội rà phá hiện trường giao tranh toàn nữ RENEW-NPA và bốn nữ đại sứ, hàng trước (từ trái qua phải Deborah Paul, Canada; Wendy Matthews, New Zealand; Grete Løchen, Na Uy; và Beatrice Maser Mallor, Thụy Sĩ). Hải Lăng, Quảng Trị, 09/5/2019. © Hien Ngo / RENEW-NPA.

Hải Lăng, Quảng Trị (9/5/2019) – Bốn nhà lãnh đạo của cộng đồng quốc tế ở Việt Nam, các nữ đại sứ của Thụy Sĩ, Na Uy, Canada, và New Zealand (được biết đến là Nhóm G4) tại Việt Nam, hôm thứ Năm đến Quảng Trị để xem một đội rà phá hiện trường toàn nữ làm việc.

Đoàn gồm có Đại sứ Deborah Paul (Canada), Wendy Matthews (New Zealand), Grete Løchen (Na Uy), và Beatrice Maser Mallor (Thụy Sĩ). Chuyến thăm chính thức dài hai ngày của họ là để trực tiếp tìm hiểu về hậu quả chiến tranh ở Quảng Trị, đặc biệt là nỗ lực đang diễn ra để khảo sát và rà phá bom mìn còn sót lại sau chiến tranh mà còn đe dọa cuộc sống của người dân địa phương. Các đại sứ cũng thăm các dự án phát triển do các nước nhóm G4 tài trợ. Tiếp tục đọc “Các nữ đại sứ thăm đội rà phá toàn nữ của RENEW-NPA – Women Ambassadors Visit RENEW-NPA’s All-Woman Clearance Team”

Les sanctions américaines entrent en vigueur, Pékin va répliquer

lecourrier 10/05/2019 15:03
Malgré la poursuite des négociations, la nouvelle hausse des droits de douane américains sur les produits chinois est entrée en vigueur comme prévu vendredi 10 mai, entraînant une réplique immédiate de Pékin qui a promis d’imposer ses propres sanctions.

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Le vice Premier ministre chinois Liu He, le 9 mai à Washington.
Photo: AFP/VNACVN

La Chine “n’aura d’autre choix que de prendre de nécessaires mesures de représailles”, a averti le ministère chinois du Commerce quelques minutes après l’entrée en vigueur des surtaxes américaines à minuit heure de Washington (04h01 GMT).

L’augmentation de 10% à 25% des droits de douane supplémentaires porte sur des produits représentant environ 200 milliards de dollars de commerce annuel de la Chine vers les États-Unis, soit près de la moitié des ventes de Pékin à l’oncle Sam. Tiếp tục đọc “Les sanctions américaines entrent en vigueur, Pékin va répliquer”

Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base

The toxic legacy of the Vietnam War

The US has launched a multi-million dollar clean-up operation at an air base in Vietnam it used to store the notorious chemical Agent Orange.

The ten-year programme, unveiled more than four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, will cost $183m (£141m).

The site at Bien Hoa airport, outside Ho Chi Minh City, is considered the most contaminated in the country. Tiếp tục đọc “Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base”

US plans warship visits to Vietnam this summer for enhanced maritime ties

The US Navy is planning two major visits to Vietnam this year as part of efforts to strengthen maritime relations between the two armies.

US plans warship visits to Vietnam this summer for enhanced maritime ties
Vietnamese officials welcome US delegation on the visit of USS Carl Vinson to Danang in March 2018. Photo: Navytimes

The US “would welcome the opportunity for another aircraft carrier visit to Vietnam this year,” saying that the move shows the mutual respect that each nation has for each other and the depth of the two countries’ growing partnership, Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command Admiral Philip Davidson said at a press meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on April 18, VnExpress reported. Tiếp tục đọc “US plans warship visits to Vietnam this summer for enhanced maritime ties”

Meet the Team Leader of Vietnam’s First All-Female Clearance Team

Project RENEW update

April 14, 2019

At age 30, Nguyen Thi Thuy has started in a job that everyone in Vietnam believed that only men could do. This mother of one daughter now leads an all-female clearance team of 16 members for clearing cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war contaminated land in Quang Tri Province.

The youngest from a family of eight children in Gio Chau Commune, Gio Linh District, Nguyen Thi Thuy has been working with the Survey and Clearance Program of Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid (RENEW-NPA) in Quang Tri Province since 2013.

Tiếp tục đọc “Meet the Team Leader of Vietnam’s First All-Female Clearance Team”