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🇺🇸🇻🇳 Biden to visit Vietnam next month
US President Joe Biden will visit Vietnam next month to meet with top officials on issues ranging from technology and the economy to regional stability and climate change.
Biden will meet with Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and other top Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi on September 10.
Washington is eager to upgrade relations with Hanoi, considering it a key partner in the region at a time when US relations with Beijing are increasingly strained. Vietnam, meanwhile, must weigh the reaction of its powerful neighbor, China.
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US President Joe Biden will visit Vietnam next month to meet with top officials on issues ranging from technology and the economy to regional stability and climate change.
Biden will meet with Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and other top Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi on September 10.
Washington is eager to upgrade relations with Hanoi, considering it a key partner in the region at a time when US relations with Beijing are increasingly strained. Vietnam, meanwhile, must weigh the reaction of its powerful neighbor, China.
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🇻🇳🇨🇳 Vietnam protests against Chinese force’s attack on fishermen in contested waters
Vietnam protested to China over what it said was an attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat three days ago in contested South China Sea waters that injured several fishermen. Around 40 people from two foreign vessels had beaten the fishermen with iron pipes, injuring 10.
The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Chinese law enforcers beat the Vietnamese fishermen and took away their fishing equipment when their boat was operating near Hoang Sa, Vietnam’s name for the Paracel Islands.
“Vietnam is extremely concerned, indignant and resolutely protests the brutal treatment by Chinese law enforcement forces of Vietnamese fishermen and fishing boats operating in the Hoang Sa archipelago of Vietnam,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said.
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Vietnam protested to China over what it said was an attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat three days ago in contested South China Sea waters that injured several fishermen. Around 40 people from two foreign vessels had beaten the fishermen with iron pipes, injuring 10.
The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Chinese law enforcers beat the Vietnamese fishermen and took away their fishing equipment when their boat was operating near Hoang Sa, Vietnam’s name for the Paracel Islands.
“Vietnam is extremely concerned, indignant and resolutely protests the brutal treatment by Chinese law enforcement forces of Vietnamese fishermen and fishing boats operating in the Hoang Sa archipelago of Vietnam,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said.
#Vietnam #China
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