Vietnam has growing role in US s eyes: experts
By Viet Anh August 3, 2021 | 01:30 pm GMT+7
Vietnamese National Defense Minister Phan Van Giang (L) and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin bump elbows after the signing the Vietnamese Wartime Accounting Initiative Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries in Hanoi, Vietnam, July 29, 2021. Photo by the U.S. Department of Defense/Chad J. McNeeley.
The visit of U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to Vietnam and the upcoming trip by Vice President Kamala Harris indicate Hanoi s rapidly growing importance for Washington.
The U.S. s appreciation for Vietnam s role is increasing, and it is carrying out diplomatic moves to gain Vietnam s support, both from its leaders and people, for its position in the region, Le Hong Hiep, a fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, told
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Attendees to the 20th Summit of Association of Southeast Asian Nations, held in Phnom Penh, could not miss the warm welcome for another visitor – billboards and flags honoring Chinese President Hu Jintao. The visit was no coincidence, argues journalist Sebastian Strangio, based in Phnom Penh. A steady flow of loans and investment in Cambodian projects signals rising Chinese influence and possible cracks in regional solidarity among the 10 member states of ASEAN, particularly over territorial disputes with China over the resource-rich South China Sea. Of course, Cambodia was not always close to China, with its history of funding the Khmer Rouge, the communist guerrilla group that began in 1960, presided over genocide of 1.7 million from 1975 to 1979, and continued its insurgency into the 1990s. Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen insists China does not control his country of 15 million. But China’s support undoubtedly emboldens Cambodia to ignore