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