USA ends Vietnam arms embargo

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Mon May 23, 2016 2:26 pm

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/23/polit ... tnam-trip/
Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN)President Obama has announced that the United States is fully lifting the ban on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam which has been in place for decades.

In a joint news conference with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, Obama said that the removal of the ban was part of a deeper defense co-operation with the country and dismissed suggestions it was aimed at countering China's growing strength in the region.

Earlier on Monday, Obama and Quang also witnessed the signing of a record $11.3 billion deal between plane-maker Boeing and local airline VietJet.
VietJet's order of 100 737 jets is the largest commercial plane order in Vietnamese history.

LTO · Post by **LTO** » Mon May 23, 2016 2:43 pm

New lines being drawn as the US and China set up SEA for confrontation. This time the US and Hanoi working together, this time with Cambodia on the other side. Longbeach is going to be so confused.

table42 · Post by **table42** » Mon May 23, 2016 2:49 pm

"dismissed suggestions it was aimed at countering China's growing strength in the region."

Yeah right. I'd say LTO has got ot right.

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Mon May 23, 2016 3:15 pm

sure, Clarke, Subic, and Cam Ranh Bay will all be bases.
This has been agreed for some years now.
unless President Trump pursues isolation as a policy.

LTO · Post by **LTO** » Mon May 23, 2016 3:19 pm

HE's Eye: "It's on mornings like this when I wish Sacrava was alive to draw a picture of Obama wearing a conical hat and a Vietnamese prostitute."

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Mon May 23, 2016 4:57 pm

frank lee bent wrote:sure, Clarke, Subic, and Cam Ranh Bay will all be bases.
This has been agreed for some years now.
unless President Trump pursues isolation as a policy.

President Trump. It has a good ring to it Like President Bush.

My immediate thought when reading the headline was Iran and Iraq.
God Bless America and all that sail up her.

bolueeleh · Post by **bolueeleh** » Mon May 23, 2016 7:16 pm

Yeah, fuck china for being a bully

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Mon May 23, 2016 7:45 pm

and spending on infrastructure. that is just unfair

cptrelentless · Post by **cptrelentless** » Mon May 23, 2016 9:10 pm

Maybe they'll buy some F-35s, save the rest of us getting lumbered with them.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus · Post by **Bitte_Kein_Lexus** » Tue May 24, 2016 7:05 am

Haha yeah, all of NATO is pissed off. Need more buyers to offset the ridiculous costs.

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