Monday, May 23, 2016

In shadow of Obama’s visit, Vietnam cracked down on protests over dead fish

In shadow of Obama's visit, Vietnam cracked down on protests over dead fish

President Obama's visit to Vietnam highlights ever growing ties between former Cold War adversaries. Obama announced Monday in Hanoi that Washington would be fully lifting a longstanding U.S. embargo on lethal arms sales to Vietnam,  a move seen as a bid to hedge against Chinese expansionism in the region. As my colleague David Nakamura reports from Vietnam, Obama hailed […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/05/23/in-shadow-of-obamas-visit-vietnam-cracked-down-on-protests-over-dead-fish/

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