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U.S. Likely to Lift Ban on Arms Sales to Vietnam

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Despite objections from some lawmakers and human rights advocates, the White House is considering selling U.S. weapons to Hanoi — for the first time since the war.

U.S. Likely to Lift Ban on Arms Sales to Vietnam

The White House appears poised to end a ban on arms sales to Vietnam in time for a landmark visit by President Barack Obama later this month, despite misgivings from some lawmakers and human rights advocates.

The step would carry crucial symbolism in the growing contest for influence between China and the United States in the Western Pacific and also for America’s relationship with Hanoi that has come full circle since the dark days of the Vietnam War. Tiếp tục đọc “U.S. Likely to Lift Ban on Arms Sales to Vietnam” →

Vietnam’s ‘Putin’ Steers Country Away From China, Toward U.S.

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by ERIC BACULINAO

BEIJING — Vietnam’s prime minister, a former child messenger for the Viet Cong, has spent his 10 years in power standing up to the Chinese and steering his country closer to the U.S.

Tipped as a strong candidate to become the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party at next week’s National Congress, Nguyen Tan Dung has already been dubbed his country’s “Putin.”

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Folks singers and dancers perform at a reception commemorating 60 years diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam in a hotel in Beijing on Tuesday. Eric Baculinao / NBC News

“No one in Vietnam has done a Vladimir Putin, who has served as prime minister and then president,” said Professor Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnam affairs at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s ‘Putin’ Steers Country Away From China, Toward U.S.” →

The U.S. Navy Wants to Show China Who’s Boss

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In a growing military rivalry with Beijing, U.S. commanders are looking for new anti-ship missiles and rewriting their war-fighting doctrine in the Pacific.

The U.S. Navy Wants to Show China Who’s Boss

Worried about China’s increasing naval might, the U.S. Navy is scrambling to buy new anti-ship missiles for the first time in decades, and throwing out its old playbook for war strategy in the Pacific.

Since the end of the Cold War, the American military has enjoyed unrivaled dominance on the high seas, with no other navy posing a serious threat. But over the past decade, China has rapidly built up a naval force to be reckoned with, spending tens of billions of dollars annually to produce dozens of new warships of every size, and a formidable arsenal of missiles aimed at undercutting America’s naval reach. Tiếp tục đọc “The U.S. Navy Wants to Show China Who’s Boss” →

Mỹ muốn xoay trục thành công phải để cá tra Việt Nam tự do ‘bơi’

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18/07/2015 07:00

(TNO) Mỹ đang thực hiện chiến lược xoay trục về châu Á nhưng tham vọng này sẽ không thể thành công hoàn toàn chừng nào Washington chưa cho phép… con cá tra của Việt Nam “tự do bơi đến Mỹ”.

Mỹ muốn xoay trục thành công phải để cá tra Việt Nam tự do 'bơi' - ảnh 1
Chiến lược xoay trục của Mỹ ở châu Á sẽ không hoàn hảo nếu chỉ nhắm đến vấn đề quân sự  – Ảnh: Reuters

Đó nhận định của tờ The Wall Street Journal (Mỹ) trong bài viết ngày 16.7 dưới nhan đề The US Trade Hypocrisy in Vietnam (tạm dịch: Sự ngụy biện của thương mại Mỹ ở Việt Nam) của tác giả Jeffrey Fowler, Phó Đô đốc, Giám đốc Học viện Hải quân Mỹ đã nghỉ hưu. Tiếp tục đọc “Mỹ muốn xoay trục thành công phải để cá tra Việt Nam tự do ‘bơi’” →

Public Opinion Is Strong Foundation for Future U.S.-Vietnam Relations

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By Cu Chi Loi

Commuters in Hanoi, Vietnam. Source: AdamCohn's flickr photostream, used under a creative commons license.

C – The visit of Communist Party general-secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to the United States in early July contributed significantly to trust building between the U.S. and Vietnamese governments, and helped address what many described as the lingering “America syndrome” within Vietnam’s ruling party. At the grassroots level, an overwhelming majority of Vietnamese also support closer relations with the United States. Tiếp tục đọc “Public Opinion Is Strong Foundation for Future U.S.-Vietnam Relations” →

Limits of US-Vietnam Relations Revealed in Communist Party Leader Visit

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The recent trip is not as monumental as some are making it out to be.

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By Shawn W. Crispin
July 10, 2015
 

Was Vietnam’s de facto supreme leader Nguyen Phu Trong’s diplomatic tour of Washington, including a White House meeting with President Barack Obama, as monumental as reported? News headlines almost universally heralded Trong’s visit, the first ever by a Communist Party chief to the United States, as a historic milestone in deepening reconciliation and burgeoning ties between the one-time battlefield adversaries. Tiếp tục đọc “Limits of US-Vietnam Relations Revealed in Communist Party Leader Visit” →

‘The US wants strategic partnership with Vietnam’

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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of normalization of the US – Vietnam ties, VietNamNet talks with former Foreign Deputy Minister Le Cong Phung, who served as Vietnam ambassador to the US in 2007-2011.

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Mr. Le Cong Phung met with former President Bill Clinton in 2010.

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Vietnam Party Chief’s Historic Visit to Washington: Establishing Strategic Trust

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by  • July 3, 2015

By Ernest Z. Bower & Phuong Nguyen

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong meeting with Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Hanoi, Vietnam on June 1, 2015. Source: Secretary of Defense's flickr photostream, U.S. Government Work.

CSIS – The general-secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong on July 7 will meet with President Barack Obama as the two leaders strive to establish strategic trust, the requisite foundation for the relationship to move to the next level. The visit is unprecedented in the history of U.S.-Vietnam relations. Unlike his Chinese counterpart, who is both communist party chief and president, Trong does not hold an official position within the government. Yet he is the highest-ranking political leader in the Vietnamese system. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam Party Chief’s Historic Visit to Washington: Establishing Strategic Trust” →

Southeast Asia’s Geopolitical Centrality and the U.S.-Japan Alliance

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By Ernest Z. Bower, Murray Hiebert, Gregory B. Poling, Phuong Nguyen
JUN 11, 2015

CSIS – Building on a careful analysis of Southeast Asia’s recent history, politics, economics, and place within the Asia Pacific, this report looks forward two decades to anticipate the development of trends in the region and how they will impact the U.S.-Japan alliance. How will Southeast Asian states come to grips with the political and economic rise of China? How will they modernize their military forces and security relationships, and what role can the United States and Japan play? How will they manage their disputes in the South China Sea, and how will they pursue greater regional integration? These questions will prove critical in understanding Southeast Asia’s role in the Asia Pacific, and in the U.S.-Japan alliance, in the decades ahead.

Publisher CSIS/Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 978-1-4422-4086-5 (pb); 978-1-4422-4087-2 (eBook)
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