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Nearly five decades after the fall of Saigon, U.S. will help Vietnam boost its military capabilities
CNBC ^ | SEP 11 2023 4:07 PM EDT | Emma Kinery @EMMAKINERY

Posted on 09/11/2023 2:21:11 PM PDT by cba123

Biden and Trọng agreed to “welcome further cooperation in defense industry and defense trade” between the two countries.

Vietnam upped the U.S.’s diplomatic status to a “comprehensive strategic partner,” the country’s highest tier placing the U.S. on par with China.

Biden said the move represented how much relations have moved on from the “bitter past” of the Vietnam War.

Nearly fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the United States agreed to help build up Vietnam’s defense capabilities, …

… President Joe Biden and General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng of the communist party of Vietnam agreed to “welcome further cooperation in defense industry and defense trade” between the two countries in a joint statement released Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; relationship; vietnam
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Truth hurts.


41 posted on 09/11/2023 3:41:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cba123

I don’t like it but I do understand it.


42 posted on 09/11/2023 3:44:46 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: dfwgator; Grampa Dave
But as to New Zealand....

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to Join Harvard as Fellow this Fall

Such an easy transition.... Follow the money, part two. Or twelve....

43 posted on 09/11/2023 3:45:11 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: cba123

It was Vietnam that ended The Killing Fields in Cambodia.

I think once Ho Chi Minh passed, it made the Vietnamese not so gung-ho about Communism, although they keep the symbolism.


44 posted on 09/11/2023 3:46:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Yamamoto went to Harvard, too.


45 posted on 09/11/2023 3:46:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: All

Would be nice if 0’Biden would try to boost American military capabilities rather than destroying them.


46 posted on 09/11/2023 3:48:38 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: QBFimi

Amen Brother, from an old Marine who was there.


47 posted on 09/11/2023 3:49:21 PM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: cba123

What do the boat people say? Most of those folks kinda hate Hanoi.


48 posted on 09/11/2023 3:49:21 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: cba123

The Viets played the geopolitical game far better than the US did. Give them their due. Ho said that Vietnam would kill one American for every ten of them and they would still win. And they did. So give credit where credit is due. Continued animosity solves nothing.


49 posted on 09/11/2023 3:51:04 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: cba123
Nearly fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the United States agreed to help build up Vietnam’s defense capabilities, …

Maybe they should help us build our capabilities.

50 posted on 09/11/2023 3:54:26 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Karliner

Which city is more prosperous today: Hanoi, or Saigon (I refuse to call it by its ‘official’ name)?


51 posted on 09/11/2023 3:55:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Karliner

I wonder what their children and grandchildren think, I think they’ve probably moderated a bit.


52 posted on 09/11/2023 3:56:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cba123

At the cost of 58,000 American lives.


53 posted on 09/11/2023 4:03:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Suceed, Well So Much For Skydiving ~)
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To: cba123

More money to be made by the politicians, their family members, and their big donors investing in the military complex.


54 posted on 09/11/2023 4:10:45 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Waverunner

I’m glad my Vietnam vet brother isn’t alive to see this $hit.


55 posted on 09/11/2023 4:13:27 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"The Vietnamese hate the Chinese more than the US."

The U.S. was fighting a proxy war with China and Russia in Vietnam.

56 posted on 09/11/2023 4:15:41 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Grampa Dave; All

Vietnam is far more concerned with Chinese aggression than Australia and New Zealand.


57 posted on 09/11/2023 4:24:19 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: cba123

WTF are we paying that with? Printed paper based on nothing? We’re 32 TRILLION in debt, in debt for the next 7 generations, millions of homeless all over America, working people cannot afford homes....And here we are again, giving more to effing foreign countries...


58 posted on 09/11/2023 4:31:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dfwgator
--- "$50.9 billion -- the size of Harvard University's endowment in the 2022 fiscal year."

Source: https://www.harvard.edu/about/endowment/

Isn't it interesting that Harvard still requires tuition -- much in the form of student loans -- and grants from the government? The amount used for various purposes comes to about 1.3 percent of the endowment, as the fund grows faster than it is spent down.

I'd written sometime back to the Harvard Crimson, the undergrad paper, asking why the endowment wasn't being used to fund more of student needs, and sparked a nice little conversation in articles.

:)

59 posted on 09/11/2023 4:46:08 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: dfwgator

When I taught martial arts in Westminster?Garden Grove(Little Saigon)they were very, very pro America. I remember the PM of Vietnam came or maybe it was the mayor of Saigon( aka that other name) and they were furious.

Probably their children and grandchildren are pro Hanoi but they really respected their elders. Good question. No answer.


60 posted on 09/11/2023 4:52:00 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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