Minutes. All right, so this next panel is a little different. The first two, in a sense. You had a military power. You had a panel. And this is what i call a disparate panel. Each of these folks represents something quite different. But the theme that brings it together is, postwar vietnam and all the different ways it has evolved. And rather than go through the tedious nature. Long introductions. Keith Washington Posts brilliant Foreign Correspondent man about town currently runs the journalism at the university of hong kong, which is worth its own panel. Right. And hong is a professor of distinction at columbia and. I can tell you, having been to one of her events just the other day, it was completely fascinating for reasons i think well get into, which is what is the nature of todays vietnam and ambassador burckhardt was not an ambassador when i first met him. He was a Junior Service officer who, unlike the rest of his people, actually talked to a reporter, which may have been the r
Minutes. All right, so this next panel is a little different. The first two, in a sense. You had a military power. You had a panel. And this is what i call a disparate panel. Each of these folks represents something quite different. But the theme that brings it together is, postwar vietnam and all the different ways it has evolved. And rather than go through the tedious nature. Long introductions. Keith Washington Posts brilliant Foreign Correspondent man about town currently runs the journalism at the university of hong kong, which is worth its own panel. Right. And hong is a professor of distinction at columbia and. I can tell you, having been to one of her events just the other day, it was completely fascinating for reasons i think well get into, which is what is the nature of todays vietnam and ambassador burckhardt was not an ambassador when i first met him. He was a Junior Service officer who, unlike the rest of his people, actually talked to a reporter, which may have been the r
They have spent a lot of time in vietnam i believe in the 90s or earlier than that as journalists for Eastern Economic review. And they both speak perfect vietnamese. I hope they dont start speaking that here. So todays topic is to discuss vietnams relations with both United States and china. Because of the flareup of the South China Sea dispute in recent years there have been a lot of questions and a lot of skepticism about vietnams alignment choices, external Foreign Policy choices. And china and vietnam apparently theyre both governed by communist party and its oneparty rule. Although could you argue that the political reform in two countries have taken different speed. So we are also eager to hear from the experts how the vietnamese domestic politics evolution also affects their Foreign Policy choices between the United States and china and how do we understand the future of these two bilateral relations. Thats enough talking from me. Ill invite dr. Pun to share with us her perspec
[ applause ] good afternoon. Im jim carafano. I oversee all the foreign defense policy here at the Heritage Foundation. My pleasure to welcome the Prime Minister of vietnam. Nguyen xuan phuc. It is an honor to host you, sir. [ speaking vietnamese ] [ applause ] i am also very pleased to recognize the ambassadors of t asean today. Including vinh who made today possible. [ speaking vietnamese ] on the american side i would like to acknowledge u. S. Ambassador to vietnam ted osiis and patrick murphy. Thank you again for being here. [ applause ] [ speaking vietnamese ] and of course i would be remiss not to recognize the founder of the Heritage Foundation and our interim president ed fuler in. Dr. Fullner believed in the transpacific relationship long before there was a trade agreement named after them. The continued the Asian Study Center to nurture them. Thank you, ed. [ speaking vietnamese ] and ed, thank you for allowing me to do the honors today. U. S. vietnam relations have been on a
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