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China undermined Harris' Vietnam vaccine outreach by capitalizing on flight delay: report
Fox ^ | 25 August 2021 | Thomas Barrabi |

Posted on 08/25/2021 11:33:07 PM PDT by blueplum

The Chinese government seized on a scheduling delay during Vice President Kamala Harris’ ongoing trip to Vietnam to undercut the White House’s planned outreach regarding COVID-19 vaccine supply, according to a report Wednesday.

Harris was set to announce a U.S. donation of one million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine as part of a broader effort to cultivate closer ties with Vietnam and counteract Beijing’s influence in the region.

When Harris’ team experienced a three-hour delay ahead of her planned meeting with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, China sent its own diplomat to meet with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and offer two million vaccine doses, the Washington Post reported....

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; foreigndiplomacy; vaccinediplomacy; vietnam

1 posted on 08/25/2021 11:33:07 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Hyper leftist though she is...I strangely think that she may in fact be better president than Biden...


2 posted on 08/25/2021 11:36:47 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

the girl who’s ‘the last person in the room and the last voice Joe hears’ can’t even decipher the optics of being photographed in front of a HoChi statue. She can however, walk up a plane gangway without falling 3 times. So there’s that.


3 posted on 08/25/2021 11:43:06 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

She was also a prosecutor at some point ?


4 posted on 08/25/2021 11:50:35 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: blueplum; Fred Nerks
Harris did a delay on porpoise?

And now Harris says:"President Nguyen Xuan Phuc off."

This woman couldn't peel a banana unless someone did it for her.

True shuttle diplomacy here.( Sarc.)

Send her to a game of bases loaded hardball and she comes back from a golf club after spending all her time on the back nine. Thats CRT for ya.


5 posted on 08/26/2021 12:55:00 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: blueplum

I am VERY disappointed in Harris.

As much as I am naturally a conservative, I was ready to be enthused by Harris about her making a donation of Covid vaccine to Vietnsm.

For those unfamiliar with the situation, Vietnam has the very slowest vaccine rollout in Asia. SLOW. Just two percent of the population has been fully vaccinated yet. 2%.

Now granted that was partly because Vietnam had done (remarkably) against Covid, right up until April of this year. Practically zero cases. But that changed with the Delta variant. Now it is everywhere (especially in Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City. The city is as of last weekend, completely closed.

So here came Harris. The city NEEDS lots, and lots, and lots of vaccines. Many times the five million doses earlier given Vietnam. Twenty or thirty million to be sure. Maybe even fifty million.

So Harris shows up, and ... WOW ... (huh?)

One million doses. The entire biggest city is completely shut down, now for a month and a half now. The second largest city and capital is just shutting down, Only TWO PERCENT have completely vaccinated this far, and Harris gave us ... just one million.

The population of Vietnam is one hundred million!!!

Wow. Not.


6 posted on 08/26/2021 2:57:26 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam)
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To: cba123

“I am VERY disappointed in Harris.”

Wait ‘til she’s president!


7 posted on 08/26/2021 5:15:02 AM PDT by moovova (Joe Biden...Making the Taliban great again!...")
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To: blueplum
If that was the reason behind this:

Possible Havana syndrome incident delayed Harris flight to Vietnam

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/politics/kamala-harris-vietnam/

That's playing hardball with the Vice President of the United States.

8 posted on 08/26/2021 5:27:31 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: cba123

“...and counteract Beijing’s influence in the region.” For more than two thousand years the Vietnamese have fought off Chinese influence in their region. The last time was in 1979.


9 posted on 08/26/2021 5:29:45 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

I think she should be sent around by Planned Parenthood as an example of how the kids may turn out if they don’t have an abortion.


10 posted on 08/26/2021 8:49:37 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Hyper leftist though she is...I strangely think that she may in fact be better president than Biden...

Setting a pretty low bar there.

11 posted on 08/26/2021 8:50:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cba123
"You trusted me?"


12 posted on 08/26/2021 8:51:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bookshelf

“I’d rather smell French s__t for five years, than Chinese s__t for a thousand.” - Ho Chi Minh


13 posted on 08/26/2021 8:52:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cba123
I assume the Vietnamese are aware that Chinese vaccines are crap.

Still, if you are going to engage in vaccine diplomacy, you can do better than we appear to have done thus far.

It’s not like there’s an oversupply of Americans lining up to take the three that have received EUAs here.

14 posted on 08/26/2021 8:53:10 AM PDT by untenured
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To: blueplum

Harris = Ugly American


15 posted on 08/26/2021 8:53:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: blueplum

China undermined Harris’ Vietnam vaccine outreach.

A front for giving her instructions while off shore?.

Biden act II?.


16 posted on 08/26/2021 9:04:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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