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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...

. *** The President was in India for the G20 summit and held a presser in Hanoi, Vietnam during which the pre-selected reporters he called on all had at least one thing in common. Toward the end he was asked about U.S.-China relations by VOA correspondent Anita Powell, and specifically that he hasn’t spoken with Xi in 10 months. *** “And look, nobody likes having celebrated international meetings, if you don’t know what you want at the meeting. If you don’t have a game plan. He may have a game plan. He just hasn’t shared it with me,” said Biden...

President Joe Biden held a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday evening where he appeared confused and rambling, and eventually told the audience he was going to bed. Biden, 80, made an awkward joke where he called the 1987 anti-Vietnam War movie Good Morning, Vietnam, a “song.” “One of my staff members said, remember the famous song ‘Good Morning Vietnam’? Well, good evening, Vietnam,” he said to no laughter. Biden then read remarks from a teleprompter, before saying he would take questions from reporters who were on a list that was given to him. “They gave me five people...

Someone in charge of the microphone turned off President Joe Biden’s mic during his press conference in Vietnam Sunday as Biden began to ramble. Biden was asked about the fact that he had not spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping in 10 months and whether he thought that would destabilize U.S.-China relations. Biden stated he had met with China’s “number two person in India today,” segued to saying sympathetically of Xi, “he has his hands full right now because of rampant unemployment among China’s youth,” before veering off, “I don’t know about you, but I’m going to bed.” He started...

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(CNN) — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Sunday abruptly ended a news conference with President Joe Biden in Hanoi, Vietnam, at one point taking a microphone and announcing the event had concluded even as the president was still answering questions from reporters in the room. As the president was responding to shouted questions from the press, Jean-Pierre took to the microphone to announce, “Thank you everybody – this ends the press conference.” Biden remained on stage briefly following her announcement, responding to one additional question, though his full answer was inaudible. Biden had, at that point, taken the...

Joe Biden was in Hanoi on Sunday, meeting with Vietnam's Communist Party leader, General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng. After the meeting, he made some remarks and took a few questions from the press. We probably don't even have to say anymore that it didn't go well, you can just assume that there are going to be big embarrassing issues. Biden started in confusion about whether it was evening there (it was). BIDEN: "Good evening, everyone. It is evening, isn't it? This around the world in five days is interesting. Well, one of my staff members said, 'Remember the famous song,...

HANOI (AP) — President Joe Biden insisted Sunday that he is not trying to start a “cold war” with China as he made his first visit to Vietnam, saying his goal is to provide stability around the world by building U.S. ties with Vietnam and other Asian countries. “We have an opportunity to strengthen alliances around the world to maintain stability. That’s what this trip is all about,” Biden said at a news conference. “It’s not about containing China. It’s about having a stable base.” The U.S. president came to Hanoi as Vietnam is elevating the United States to its...

Joe Biden is having quite the trip to Vietnam. When his plane landed Joe Biden delivered remarks at a welcoming ceremony and then walked off before his Vietnamese partner started talking. Then he froze in place while the Vietnamese leader delivered his remarks. The media ignored this latest brain freeze. A bit later Joe Biden held a joint press conference with General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

President Biden on Tuesday announced he will be visiting Vietnam “shortly” during remarks at a campaign fundraiser, not elaborating on details about his upcoming trip. “I’m going to be going to Vietnam shortly because Vietnam wants to change our relationship and become a partner,” Biden told a group of donors in New Mexico. “We find ourselves in a situation where all these changes around the world are taking place at a time—we have an opportunity…to change the dynamic.” He was discussing in his remarks that “allegiances are changing around the world” as a result of the war in Ukraine.

The U.S. women's national team are set to square off against Vietnam Friday at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand in their World Cup opener. The match is the first of three group games for USA as they begin the journey to a fifth World Cup title. No team has ever achieved a three-peat of cups and the USWNT are in prime position to be the first to do so. They'll have to get through the group, where all games take place in New Zealand, and they include a 2019 final rematch against the Netherlands. Matchday one is the first-ever...

China's Mini electric car Zhidou A01 appeared in the Vietnamese market, priced at more than 100 million dong, if officially sold at this price, it will likely be sought after by many people. Recently, within the framework of Autotech & Accessories Exhibition 2023 taking place in Ho Chi Minh City. Zhidou electric car brand from China suddenly appeared and introduced to Vietnamese consumers a small electric car called Zhidou A01. As revealed by the car company, Zhidou A01 will be changed logo and brand name to suit Vietnamese users. In addition, the automaker is also cooperating with domestic enterprises to...

Chinese electric car company Zhidou plans to begin selling its mini electric A01 car model at an expected price of VND100 million ($4,260) in Vietnam within the next three months.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong appreciated the upgrade of the bilateral relations between Vietnam and the US to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

Upgrade allows U.S. to reach same tier as China, Russia U.S. sees Vietnam as crucial in its strategy to contain Beijing Partnership to boost cooperation on chips, rare earths Vietnam in talks with Russia over possible arms deal - letter HANOI/WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden secured deals with Vietnam on semiconductors and minerals as the strategic Southeast Asian nation elevated Washington to its highest diplomatic status alongside China and Russia. The U.S. has been pushing for the upgrade for months as it sees the manufacturing dynamo as a key country in its strategy to secure global...

HANOI (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday opened a visit to a Vietnam that wants to dramatically ramp up trade with the United States, a sign of how competition with China is reshaping relationships across Asia. The president has made it a point of pride that Vietnam is elevating the United States to the status of being a comprehensive strategic partner. Other countries that Vietnam has extended this designation to include China and Russia. Giving the U.S. the same status suggests that Vietnam wants to hedge its friendships as U.S. and European companies look for alternatives to Chinese factories....

Foua, a farmer in his 30s, has spent three months behind bars in Vietnam’s northwestern province of Dien Bien. He will remain there for two more, convicted of deforestation – even though the law only stipulates a fine as punishment. His crime? Cutting down nine trees to build a hut for his family. But his wife, Cua, who did not want to reveal her or Foua’s real names for fear of retaliation, says her husband has been persecuted for being Christian. When she last saw him, he was in hospital, three days after he was jailed, his leg shackled to...

Just days ahead of US President Joe Biden’s visit to Vietnam for key talks on trade and closer diplomatic relations, the president paid homage to events from an earlier and very different time – when Washington and Hanoi were at war. At the White House on Tuesday, Biden presented the Medal of Honor, the United States military’s highest award, to 81-year-old Larry Taylor, a retired army captain who had flown a Cobra attack helicopter during the height of the Vietnam War in 1968. — When Biden lands at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport on Sunday, he steps into a very...

NEW DELHI/HANOI (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden visits Vietnam's capital city Sunday, where the two countries are expected to declare themselves strategic partners, as the United States seeks to push supply chains from China and both countries to try to counter Beijing's military and diplomatic influence in Asia. Biden will arrive at the Presidential Palace Sunday afternoon for a formal welcome from Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's most powerful leader, then journey to the Party headquarters where the two will meet and then give public remarks. The visit comes as trade and investment ties between the...

Raquel Welch helped Bob Hope entertain the boys fighting communism in Vietnam. Jo Raquel Teqada was born on September 5th 1940, in Chicago, Illinois and died in February this year in Los Angeles. She was both willing and reluctant to be an amazing sex symbol. I call that being human. Her own words distance her from her sex goddess status without totally rejecting it: “My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one...