Trump addresses the APEC CEO Summit in Đà Nẵng

Foreign ministers signed the framework agreement during Obama’s visit. It created a basis for future English-language programming, without implying consensus among all Vietnamese about U.S. cultural...

A presidential memorandum directed U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Vietnam had negotiated the pact to expand markets; the U.S. decision changed its prospects and showed the...

Phúc began the first official Vietnamese prime-ministerial visit under Trump. Talks covered trade, security, and regional affairs as Vietnam pursued cooperation while asserting independent relations.

The leaders discussed bilateral relations and issued a joint statement. The meeting expanded ties but did not resolve political-rights disagreements or the unequal burdens left by war.

The statement set out cooperation on trade, defense, education, and regional affairs. It records official state priorities, not the views of every Vietnamese citizen, refugee, or war-affected person.

The visit included Hanoi and APEC leaders’ meetings in Đà Nẵng. Strategic ties advanced while human-rights questions and competing war memories remained.

The leaders affirmed sovereignty and political systems and described cooperation on security and war legacies, including U.S. missing-person accounting and Vietnam’s search for its soldiers. The...

The carrier made the first U.S. carrier port visit to Vietnam since the war. The symbolic shift in defense ties also raised questions about militarization and Vietnam’s engagement with multiple...

The carrier completed its five-day visit. Officials called it evidence of closer ties; military cooperation developed alongside work to address the material consequences of U.S. warfare.

Vietnam sent a level-two field hospital to South Sudan. This was Vietnam’s own multilateral diplomatic choice, beyond bilateral relations with its former U.S. adversary; the unit included women...